February, 1767. Off the coast of Spain, the sailboat "Dei Gloria", belonging to the Jesuit Order, dies after engaging in battle with pirates. The cabin boy, the only one who escaped, mysteriously disappears before he can really tell what happened. All he managed to report were the coordinates of the tragedy site...Spain, our days. Navigator Manuel Coy, who was temporarily deprived of the right to engage in shipboard activities for running a ship aground, meets a girl at an auction who bought an old nautical chart for a lot of money. Tangier Soto, an employee of the museum in Madrid, is maniacally obsessed with the idea of finding the lost ship, which she believes was carrying extremely important cargo. She takes Manuel Coy as her assistant as an experienced navigation specialist. The girl knows perfectly well that she has crossed the path of powerful and dangerous forces capable of doing anything to eliminate her rival, but this does not stop her.…Arturo Perez-Reverte is a former military journalist, renowned author of brilliant historical, military, and adventure novels translated into forty languages, creator of the series about Captain Diego Alatriste, and winner of the most prestigious literary awards. His bestseller "The Map of the Celestial Sphere, or the Secret Meridian" is an intellectual thriller in the best traditions of the Dumas Club and the Flemish Board. The ghosts of all the sailors of the world hover here. Here, Perez-Reverte, an experienced sailor himself, pays tribute to Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad, Herman Melville, Patrick O'Brian. Here, sea adventures are inseparable from history, literature and love.