About the book: 2023 / The end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries... In the territories adjacent to the Pamirs, British intelligence is not playing a gentleman’s game, the main goal of which is a thorough study of the eastern lands of the Russian Empire for their subsequent rejection. To prevent this, a small detachment under the command of Staff Captain Batashov is sent on a deadly expedition. Europe is also restless: there, preparing for the coming bloodbath, Germany is behaving more and more boldly…