François Baranger is a multifaceted artist: comic book author, book illustrator (Russian readers are familiar with his magnificent works from Howard Lovecraft’s stories “The Call of Cthulhu” and “The Ridges of Madness”), computer game designer. He worked a lot for cinema as a conceptual artist (Prince of Persia, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Clash of the Titans, Beauty and the Beast). In 2013, he wrote the science fiction novel Dominium Mundi, which was enthusiastically received by readers and critics. It was followed by the thriller “Domino Effect” in 2017. The year is 2202: a New Christian Empire emerges on planet Earth after a bloody war that has engulfed all continents. Urban IX, the all-powerful pope, ruler of the world, rules with an iron hand over the peoples who have returned to the medieval way of life. On his orders, the spaceship is sent to the constellation Centaurus in the hope of conquering new territories for humanity. The newly minted colonizers are surprised to discover an unknown people on one of the planets - the Atamids. But this discovery pales in comparison to an even more stunning discovery: the original tomb of Christ! The messengers of the Earth, driven by unshakable faith, try to take possession of it, but suffer a crushing defeat. In response, Pope Urban equips a giant spaceship, the St. Michael, capable of transporting a million people. The Knights Templar Tancred and Alberic take part in the crusade to the new Jerusalem. Will earthlings find contact with the Atamids or will they wipe out their civilization from the face of the planet? Can history repeat itself? For the first time in Russian!