Julius Lvovich Herzog, the true “composer” of the criminal world, nicknamed the Magician, for more than a quarter of a century recklessly and unceremoniously encroached on the state treasury and the wallets of moneybags, non-violently taking away the surplus. His life credo was: “Never rip off honest people, only scoundrels. The latter want to get something in exchange for nothing. We act honestly, we give nothing in exchange for something..." Stunning machinations that confuse the most sophisticated detectives, multi-step operations that drive crazy and ruin the powerful tycoons of world capital - all this is the work of the Magician, the great "grandmaster of scams"!...