About the book: 2005 / A man’s corpse is discovered on the threshold of an FSB department. Before his death, the unknown man managed to draw an ancient pagan symbol on the steps of the porch with his blood. In the city, a redistribution of spheres of influence began between drug dealers - Gypsies and Caucasians. The gypsy baron tries to give the police major, who was tasked with investigating these incidents, a manuscript from the library of Ivan the Terrible, and in the morning the baron is found dead. The national patriotic organization “Brotherhood of Orthodox Banner Bearers” is sending an emissary to the city. An FSB agent at the American embassy invites his handler to join the mysterious international organization White International. All this is the plot of the latest novel by Pyotr Khomyakov, “The Secret of Tsar John,” in which there is a rather strange team of a professor who calls himself a “nationalist” and “general of the Russian Resistance” and a couple of his young like-minded people, as well as a bribe-taking cop and a mysterious beauty - a school teacher literature, calling itself “princess and witch,” finds and sells abroad the library of Tsar Ivan IV Vasilyevich the Terrible. Each of them does this with their own goals, but they are together, oddly enough, almost until the very end. Cunning intrigues, secret conspiracies, chases and shootouts, meticulous intellectual investigation and, finally, the Secret of King John. Read about all this in the latest and best novel by Peter Khomyakov.