About the book: 2011 / Russia, 1801. Captain Nelidov lost seventy thousand rubles at cards - a fortune. To pay off his debt, he was offered to rob his own father. What to do? Shoot? Or... The captain made a choice. And his choice became the trigger for terrible and mysterious events. One after another, people begin to die. And the people are completely difficult, close to the imperial court. The circumstances of the deaths are extremely mysterious. The investigation is being carried out by an official of the Secret Expedition of Investigative Cases, Pavel Andreevich Tatishchev. Clearly there is a hunt for something, a suspicious stranger is seen everywhere, leaving no witnesses, but... there is no way to move forward. The tip of the ball keeps slipping out of your hands. However, unexpected help comes to Tatishchev - from the girl Turchaninova, a woman with magnetic abilities (magnetism in those days was called hypnosis and extrasensory abilities). Now there is every chance to unravel the tangle. However, the further you go, the clearer it becomes - the enemy is very strong. Is it possible to deal with it? If not, then death.