In fantastic times, whose space is crossed by the roads of the Road of Worlds—and in the streets of Moscow you can encounter both Ivan the Terrible’s oprichniks and deputies of the Third Convocation of the State Duma—there lived, for a while, a cheerful thief and desperate adventurer Khristofor Gonzo.
And suddenly his calm life ended! How could he know that in the nine bottles of the “Napoleon” cognac he stole from a trade inter-world crate, there are genies—ifrits—mighty rulers of lightning and fire-rain, destroyers of mountains and creators of deserts?!
Against his will, the thief found himself in the company of ifrit hunters. Little by little, he turned from a captive into almost the most active hunter—clever, quick-witted, fantastically lucky, and, above all, never one to be downhearted…