ILLEGAL USE OF NARCOTIC DRUGS, PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES, AND THEIR ANALOGUES CAUSES HEALTH DAMAGE, THEIR ILLEGAL CIRCULATION IS PROHIBITED AND ENTAILS LIABILITY ESTABLISHED BY LAW. The final part of the "Ibis Trilogy" (the first two books are "Poppy Sea" and "Smoky River"). In 2015, the novel "Fire Stream" won the Crossword Book Award, the largest literary prize in India. The year 1839. Tension between China and Britain is rapidly escalating. China does not want foreigners to turn it into a giant market for Indian opium. Losing huge revenues, British colonialists start a war. A British-Indian armada gathers near Canton, China. Among the ships is the schooner "Ibis," linked in one way or another to the fates of all the heroes. Among them are sepoy Kesri Singh, leading a unit of Indian soldiers; young sailor Zachary Reid, dreaming of wealth and glory; Shirin Modi, the widow of a Parsee merchant, heading to China to recover her husband's lost wealth; young Frenchwoman Paulette, who followed in the footsteps of her father, a scientist-botanist; former Raja Neil, trying to find peace in Canton... The concluding book of the trilogy will tell what happened to the heroes of "Poppy Sea" and "Smoky River." Their dramatic fates unfold against the backdrop of an equally dramatic Great History, forming a vast and colorful multi-figure tapestry.