About the book: 2008 / An anonymous letter written in the secret language of alchemists and hermeticists... What does it contain? The shortest path to obtaining the philosopher's stone? Or encrypted with the help of the ancients symbols of “royal art” a plan for an uprising against King James I of England? Or maybe the mysterious author of the letter is participating in a conspiracy, the goal of which is the release from the Tower of the legendary pirate, navigator and scientist Walter Reilly? Young court lutenist Ned Warriner, into whose hands it accidentally fell this letter, begins his own investigation. For now, one thing is clear to him: the key to the solution is the name of the author of the mysterious message…