Corto Maltese The Secret Court of the Arcane

At the end of 1918 while civil war is raging on in Russia antagonism is slowly spreading to the East between the Oral mountains and Shanghai Stuck between a desire to save whats left of the great Imperial Russia and starting from a clean slate old generals secret organizations and mercenaries attracted by gold struggle to take advantage of the events As Corto Maltese returns to Shanghai he barely gets time to cross paths with his old friendnemesis Rasputin and escape a murder attempt before being contacted by members of a Chinese secret organization called The Red Lanterns In the heart of violent Manchurian horizons Corto and Rasputin launch themselves into a fabulous treasure hunt following the tracks of the mysterious armorplated train of Kolchak A steel monster spiked with canons and machine guns this trains protects the counterrevolutionaries gold