A veteran of the brutal war in Sudan, Colonel Quaritch retires and returns to peace and quiet, to his roots, where cows graze knee-deep in flowers and wheat fields sway in the wind - to the very wilderness in the east of England. But patriarchal comfort turned into deception. Here, too, passions are in full swing, intrigues are woven, Victorian closets and villagers' basements keep their skeletons. Kvarich finds himself drawn into a mysterious story related to the search for an ancient treasure. The next volume of “Masters of Adventure” includes a novel by G.R. Haggard's "Colonel Quaritch", published in Russian for the first time. The book is filled with personal memories and vivid images. The author himself admitted that his father and the manager of their estate, Sam Adcock, became the prototypes for the two heroes of this novel - the imperious Squire de la Molle and his clever servant George.