Siberian Amazon

They appear suddenly and disappear just as suddenly. Black cloaks, hoods with red trim, fierce horses, unerring carbines, accurate arrows… No one speaks aloud about these people living somewhere in the remote taiga, fearing to bring trouble upon themselves. The Warriors of Faith — that’s what they are called. The most reckless among them, a mysterious girl named Eupraxia, has been appearing more frequently where Alexey Polyakov — an agent of the investigative police — has arrived. He is trying to find a trace of the ancient church books stolen from a famous collector, and all attempts to find out anything are thwarted. There is no doubt — Eupraxia and her brothers in faith are somehow involved in the disappearance of the books. But penetrating the veil of the harsh mystery that the Warriors of Faith have surrounded themselves with has not yet proved possible…