A "flemish board" of Артуро Перес-Реверте is an intellectual detective paradoxical and многоплановый. Roman charms a dizzily involute plot, transferring of action from one temporal and cultural layer in other. In the world of antiquarians and collectors an ancient picture is the key to solution of cruel crimes what be going on in our days. But for every lost figure it will be paid in chess party by human life.