About the book: 2001 / Rembrandt’s restored “Danae” is exhibited in the Hermitage. Exhibited - and stolen... Who decided to steal one of the most priceless works of art? Who, perhaps, is the author of the copies, which even the best experts are unable to distinguish from the original? And finally, HOW is this crime connected with two strange, mysterious and inexplicable murders? Professionals have no answer to these questions. And then the intellectual, who returned to his hometown after many years of emigration, begins his own investigation. Begins - not yet knowing into what abyss of danger and madness he is plunging…