About the book: 2008 / 1918. Manchuria. The young doctor Pavel Romanovich Dokhturov learns that a panacea - a cure for all diseases - really exists. He goes in search of it in the company of three adventurers: a cavalry captain, a former police officer and a retired general. However, they are not the only ones looking for a panacea. There are many in the game, including the secret service of Imperial Japan, local sectarians, police and counterintelligence. The closer the hero is to discovering the secret, the more dangerous his own position is. Not to mention the fact that there is a Civil War in Russia…