Diamond Chariot. The Adventures of Erast Fandorin (ePub)

Dragonfly catcher.
There is a Russo-Japanese war. The only more or less normal connection between Russian military units in the theater of operations in Manchuria and the rest of Russia is the railway. It was in order to interrupt this only "road of life" that a mysterious Japanese saboteur was specially abandoned. Erast Petrovich Fandorin himself, a great detective and a great specialist in oriental studies, has to take up the search and capture of him. But the investigation also conceals a personal secret for Erast Petrovich himself. He will have an incredible discovery about his own past and the past of his family.
Between the lines.
Erast Petrovich Fandorin arrives in Japan, in Yokohama. Due to some problems during the voyage on the Leviathan, this arrival is somewhat delayed. And literally immediately, the young diplomat finds himself involved in a whole thick of mysterious and mysterious events. Having promised the daughter of the captain of a small schooner he will certainly find the killers of her father, he becomes an unwitting witness, and sometimes a participant, in a whole heap of the most incredible events and political conspiracies. Moreover, the local authorities are also involved here, in front of which the diplomat should look impeccably clean. And bandits and murderers from port dens. And even the mysterious shinobi ninja clan.
And Erast Fandorin, thanks to his gift of luck in gambling, saves the robber Masahiro from death, who has become his faithful friend and assistant for life. But most importantly, Fandorin is destined to find his last love here, the Japanese Midori...