Veche Publishing House presents a new series of fictional prose. The sharpness and unpredictability of the plot, a bright kaleidoscope of events with a slight touch of apocalypticism, a completely new look at the most famous and dark facts of the history of the modern world - all this awaits the reader in the exciting “Novels of Recent Times”! The shot in Sarajevo plunged civilization into the abyss of chaos and pain. Intervening in the tragic masquerade of history and finding the true heroes and real villains is a chance to avert the merciless hand of historical fate stretched over the world. The new novel by the famous writer Mikhail Popov reveals the true meaning of the murder of the heir to the Austrian throne and the events that followed it.