An operative of the MUR—Nikolay Belsky—is at the center of the turbulent events of the seventeenth century. By secret order of Tsar Peter Alexeyevich, the former detective arrives in France with friends to the court of Louis XIV. Nikolay weaves intrigues cleverly to obtain “access to the royal body”—to the “Sun King.” But Paris is only an intermediate step in the operation to infiltrate the heart of the hostile Ottoman Empire.
Another war is coming and a new division of Europe, and Belsky needs his country to emerge victorious in this bloody slaughter, reach the sea, and secure the status of a Great Power. No one will be able to stop the best scout of Peter the Great on the path to this goal!