The fourth novel in the “Arkharovtsy” cycle. A letter from the head of Paris police about the kidnapping of an expensive service whose traces lead to Russia did not foretell anything terrible for the chief of police Arkharov—except routine work. At first, he couldn’t even imagine that the disappearance of the service hides a conspiracy involving the removal from court of the powerful statesman Alehan Orlov and the murder of him himself—Nikolai Arkharov’s…