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One of the most mysterious books of XXth century. First published in 1929, it gained an instant and formidable success, and it was brought back from oblivion by Sironi in 2006. It is a surprising piece of fanta-politics of the present, written by ten of the most famous authors of the time, and based on the idea that in 1931, in China, a man comes out of the blue, looking incredibly like the Czar Nicholas II. Is he a double, manouvered by an obscure power? Does he want a personal gain? Is he a mythomaniacal? Or is he the real Czar, accidentally alive – as it is said – after the Ekaterinburg slaughter? Be as it may, this man is a danger for the young Soviet regime, as well as an enormous opportunity for the other world powers to change the status quo. Thus, all diplomacies and all secret services start a hunt, generating 400 pages of chases, plot twists, shootings, dangerous escapes, turbid loves, and all that lakes a Great Adventure Novel. Set among Beijing, Istanbul, Losanna, Paris, Edingen, Rome, and even in Vatican. Composed more that 70 years ago, this is a modern novel in that it anticipates the contemporary collective writing experiences, and it is all about fast narration.

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The Literary Group of Ten, that is: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Massimo Bontempelli, Antonio Beltramelli, Lucio D’Ambra, Alessandro De Stefani, Fausto Maria Martini, Guido Milanesi, Alessandro Varaldo, Cesare Viola, Luciano Zuccoli. A wondrous mix of futurist writers, thriller authors, fine columnists, sentimental novelists and super-specialists of the coup-de-théatre.