About the book: year / Scout Ivan Platov finally turns for the Turkish command into Captain Hassan, endowed with trust. And these are new tasks, often on the verge of the possible. Or even beyond. The next Austro-Turkish war, which began “not according to schedule,” covers the entire eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans. The interests of most European states were intertwined in a tight tangle of contradictions, and the Holy Roman and Ottoman Empires found themselves only in the role of skirmishers. For the interests of Vienna and Istanbul will never coincide. And at the center of these bloody events is the captain of the Ottoman navy, Hasan..