About the book: 2011 / She was the main “sex symbol” of the era. Her beautiful body, her “exotic dances” (which would now be called striptease) drove thousands of men crazy. They said that her name translates as “eye of the dawn”, that she came from India, where she studied sacred dances in a temple since childhood and from where she was kidnapped by a British officer, that the richest people in Europe, the crown prince of Germany and half of the Parisian ministers visited her bed, that in Morocco, she almost ended up in the harem of the Sultan and was forced to flee on a French warship... It is not surprising that her arrest in February 1917 on charges of espionage against France had the effect of a bomb exploding, and the hasty death sentence still raises a lot of questions. Did Mata Hari really work for German intelligence or were her defenders right when they claimed that the evidence against her “wouldn’t even be enough to spank a cat”? It’s just that the French authorities urgently needed a “scapegoat” to justify military failures and terrible losses in fronts of the First World War? Should she be blamed for her death on the Russian officer whom she was going to marry and with whom she made her way to the front-line zone to meet, which was blamed on her at the trial? Is it true that she went to the execution as if on stage and refused the black bandage in order to face death with her eyes open and her head held high? Read the first novel about the legendary dancer and “priestess of love”, who not only drove the whole world crazy, but and turned her own life into a sensual, bewitching and tragic dance of love and death.