Events take place after the death of Peter the Great. Naval officer Semyon Plakhov, accused of murdering a fiscal official, unexpectedly gets a chance to escape if he fulfills one mysterious order. Together with the forwarder of the Secret Chancellery Ivan Samoilov, the magician Vanguver, the young poisoner Fekla and the pupil Liza, Plakhov goes to London and the New World. Battles with pirates and terrible captivity among the Indians are just the beginning of extraordinary and exciting adventures in the best traditions of adventure novels and films. The heroes will try to save a beauty from shameful slavery, whom her dissolute brother is losing at cards, and solve the main Mystery. The book will certainly appeal to those who are tired of bloody detective stories and philosophical dramas and miss memorable and fascinating texts in the style of Dumas, Jules Verne or even Akunin.