The artist, by the will of fate, finds himself involved in the pursuit of the huge inheritance of an oligarch who was recently killed in a town near Moscow, who owned a trading empire, which he once inadvertently called “Palenque”. Like the disappeared treasures of the Temple of the Snakes of the Mayans, many are haunted by the “gold of Palenque.” A certain powerful organization hopes to be the first to find skillfully hidden money, using the artist’s unique gift, called “black drawing” in the Middle Ages. The dynamic plot unfolds in several countries - Russia, China, Panama, Cyprus, Malaysia, the Philippines. The book will be of interest to fans of the detective genre and for those who are interested in esotericism.