Il grande gioco

New York, today. While Martin Mystère is signing copies of his last essay for the clients of a bookstore, one of the readers leaves a gruesome “present” with him. Central Asia, 19th century. The massive region between the Caspian Sea and Tibet is the theater of what the British call “The Great Game”: the confrontation between two powers, the British and Russian empires, and a myriad obscure local dominions. Since the times of Alexander the Great, a secret is hidden here, something many have died and many are still dying for, following a mysterious road that will take our Detective of the Impossible from a Manhattan bookshop to the Afghan deserts.