In Yuri Kostin’s new novel, the main character—Anton Ushakov, who is already known to readers from the novel “The German”—becomes the owner of a secret tied to the Tunguska meteorite. Unexpectedly, it turns out that the secret of the catastrophe that occurred in the Siberian taiga back in the distant 1908 has long been uncovered, but official propaganda stubbornly continues to claim otherwise… Is it because that secret is capable of shaking the very foundations of human society? Or maybe the truth is simply that, from the perspective of modern people, there’s nothing sensational about the solution to this mystery? Anton Ushakov finds himself drawn into a tangled intrigue around the Tunguska catastrophe. A calm life in the past. A new turn in his fate promises trials, chases, arrests, risky journeys, meetings with old acquaintances, love—and even forced immigration.