An alternative present: a world overrun by anti-globalists, terrorists, and “couldn’t care less” types. Russians are everywhere! And who else, if not a fantastic Russian girl Lidochka, with the help of a young but very heroic Scottish lord Terry Fitzmore and a Spaniard with an ambiguous name Ponciano Davila, must save the Earth from an inevitable catastrophe caused by the mysterious abduction of a child’s drawing from an ultra-secure super-museum? No more words! Because before us is a tough detective story by Mikhail Uspensky—this is the biggest surprise of the year, and even Cthulhu himself shudders at the imminent exposure!