About the book: 2005 / Strange things have recently been happening to jazz musician Boris Bagryantsev and his beloved girl Olga Rakitina. Either all the cash in the house turns into royal money, then instead of portraits of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, oleographs from the late 19th century appear on the wall. And then some guy in black with a silver sphinx badge and a strange surname Monk pesters Boris and demands to sell the book for ten million bucks. He would be glad, but what kind of book he has no idea…