It all started with an unremarkable picture - and who would have thought that it would bring Maxim to India? Alexander Berg’s canvas “Mansion on Prechistenka” became for the 19-year-old hero a door into the world of endless mysteries and ciphers - a world built by his father, who disappeared seven years ago. The young man has many questions for his father, but how can he finally ask them if every next step does not bring him any closer to the long-awaited meeting? Here, in a remote Indian province, the hero will have to deal with a new clue - Tommaso Campanella’s book “City of the Sun”. For some reason, my father’s hints lead specifically to a tattered copy of this ancient utopia. Maxim’s friends Dima and Anya, who followed him, will help him figure it out. But will they help? It seems that you can’t trust anyone at all on this protracted journey... The second part of the adventure series “City of the Sun” combines a detective story, a family saga and a thriller. Evgeny Rudashevsky develops the story of student journalist Maxim in the most unpredictable way, including in it everything that he himself is well versed in: historical and ethnographic context, puzzles and cryptograms, the subtlest nuances of human psychology. The tetralogy “City of the Sun” is an adventure-detective epic with double bottom, the main characters of which for the first time truly encounter the world of adults in all its sometimes unpleasant, and sometimes amazing diversity.