This is the first book in a new series from the author of the bestseller “Air Penal Battalion” and the “Library of Victory” series, Anton Krotkov. A completely new look at how the secret police and counterintelligence of the Russian Empire operated at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. The author’s peculiarity is that the most reliable historical realities are given against the backdrop of a tough adventurous adventure line. An exciting plot and well-written characters distinguish Krotkov on the fiction market. The last third of the 19th century. A mysterious attempt on the life of the Grand Duke, brother of Tsar Alexander III, on the railway haunts the police of the empire. A mysterious ghost train that appears inexplicably on a guarded highway is just the beginning of a game whose goal is to carry out a treacherous conspiracy that can change the course of history.