“After killing the redhead, I went to Quinn's for an oyster dinner,” begins the story of Edward Glyver, a learned bibliophile and pioneer of photography, as well as a cold-blooded killer. Since childhood, Glyver was convinced that he was destined for a great destiny, he carried this conviction through his studies at Eton and Heidelberg - and now an accidental discovery adds fuel to the old fire: It seems to Glyver that now greatness is in immediate reach, just a stone's throw away, and in addition - unimaginable wealth, position in society and great love. And he will stop at nothing to get what he considers his. Ours - by right of blood. For the first time in Russian - one of the most amazing bestsellers of the new century, a book for the rights to which a real war broke out, and the price of the issue reached half a million pounds sterling, unprecedented for a debut novel.