Light of the World

By day he teaches history, and by night he steals it. Yan leads a double life: in the classrooms of a Moscow lyceum he is a passionate teacher, in the dark alleys — a virtuoso thief. Everything changes when an order to steal an ancient book from the Lenin Library opens the door to a world of ancient mysteries capable of changing the fate of humanity. Now powerful forces are hunting him, and the path to the truth leads through the markets of China, the undergrounds of Istanbul, and endless deserts. One wrong move — and history will lose yet another hero. But Yan is not going to become its victim.