Do you know the history of Europe well? Are you sure that everything was as written in Wikipedia? And if we find among the wild rocks and dusty archives facts that say that everything could be quite different? We dive under the arches of abandoned monasteries and find evidence that the Inquisition is not at all to blame, and the history of the continent was written not only by Europeans? You are interested? Then let's do it together!.

On the pages of the book VIST Brothers "A place that is not there," we try to make a dizzying quest deep into history and, perhaps, understand how our continent developed if we look at it from a different angle. Imagine ... 1936. Somewhere high in the Alps, among the inaccessible rocks are found strange ruins. They accidentally stumbled astray in the mountains of a German mountain loner. Their scale, appearance and configuration cause unconcealed surprise, and most importantly, that there are no debris on any topographic map. How can this be in the middle of the twentieth century? Not finding an answer to the question, the climber draws to the study of two archaeologists from Paris, but he mysteriously disappears.

By coincidence, suspicions of his disappearance fall on archaeologists. The Commissioner of the 7th arrondissement of Paris puts them in suspicion: there are signs of an attack, there is an alleged murder weapon, but there are not enough motives, and even the body itself. Not really hoping for the law enforcement agencies of France, friends begin their own investigation.

Before his disappearance, the climber still had something to say, and after a short search, archaeologists find enigmatic ruins. For experts, they seem simply incredible - the real "Machu Picchu" and in the heart of Europe. The central structure of the complex - an elongated hexagon the size of a football field, bristling in all directions with powerful buttresses. Questions simply tear historians: when there was a fortress, who built it and, most importantly, what could be its purpose?.

From this point on, the detective investigation is closely intertwined with the historical. Readers together with the heroes have to solve a lot of puzzles - detective, historical, love; To survive many dangerous adventures together. The path will be twisty: Alpine Alps and abandoned monasteries, small county towns and noisy eastern capitals, dusty archives and cold caves. Readers will be transferred to different ages and even epochs, from the deep Middle Ages and up to the present days. But the start of all adventures, of course, will remain Paris!.

Will be able to make several important historical discoveries. It turns out that between the two riddles of the Middle Ages - the "Golden Fleet" from China and the siege of Vienna by the Turks in 1683 there is an invisible link. And 250 years between these events have become for Europe a special period, the consequences of which affect so far. Someone's cunning move in the distant Celestial Empire significantly influenced the history of the old continent, and the threads stretch to the Ming dynasty.

The further the archaeologists go deep into their historical investigation, the more pressure they exert. Someone, at first with hints, and then more and more rigidly gives them to understand that they have climbed into the circle of others' interests. But friends are adamant in their striving to learn the truth, they can never imagine what kind of resourcefulness it may be to intend to interfere with them and how powerful these interests are.

Sharp confrontation with an incomprehensible enemy, a dizzying love story, secret archives of Benedictine monks and, finally, logic and deduction lead archeologists to reveal the destiny of the fortress. To their horror they understand that Europe has been living on the "powder keg" for many years and one spark is enough to make it irreparable ... You can buy the book in the shops of Siaivo, Letter, Kiev House of Books.

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