Rays of death

Minister of Internal Affairs Plehve instructed Lykov to investigate the circumstances of the death of the scientist Mikhail Filippov, who in the summer of 1903 announced his invention - a new, unprecedented weapon, so destructive that wars with it would become meaningless. The day after this news was published in the newspaper, the scientist was found dead. Doctors determined the cause of death to be natural - the deceased had a weak heart. Soon after, counterintelligence intercepted a letter from a German resident stating that Filippov was killed, the authorities were unaware, and the inventor's papers were about to be sent to Berlin. How successful will Lykov be this time? Will he be able to find the killers of the inventor of the "death rays"? Will he be able to stay alive?.. For the first time in the well-known suspenseful series "Russian Bestseller"!