Внеклассное чтение. Том 2

Борис Акунин

Extracurricular reading. Volume 2

The most voluminous novel by B. Akunin! Five Fandorins in one novel! Just as any secret can be revealed and told, a criminal mystery also needs guessing and a sophisticated train of thought. The action of the new novel develops in parallel: in the last year of the reign of Catherine the Second and in our days. A seven-year-old prodigy named Mithridates, by chance, witnesses a conspiracy against the voluptuous empress. By saving Catherine from certain death, the boy puts his own destiny at stake. It seems that the huge country of Russia is full of intrigues and conspirators, there is nowhere to wait for help, but then the noble hermit Danila Fandorin appears… The modern plot is an exciting crime story. A fashionable plastic surgeon who operates on Moscow’s elite and plans to become the pharmaceutical king of Russia is ready to sacrifice the fate of his daughter for the sake of multibillion-dollar profits. The girl will be saved by the Russian Englishman Nicholas Fandorin…