Dimanasus

Dimanasus’ grandfather, Ivan Prophecevich, was a Soviet intelligence officer who, during World War II had been serving as a spy for ABWER, the organization of the Nazi Military Intelligence. Prophecevich was an unusually gifted individual. Throughout his life, his work had been marked by his ability to forsee future events with precision. His grandfather, also a clairvoyant, was an Ataman Kazak from Ukraine, who lived during the Czarist period prior to the October Revolution.

From his early years, after first discovering that he too, like his grandfather was clairvoyant - and that his ability to forsee the future was highly accurate - he used his gift to enhance his intelligence work, and did exceptionally well with it. Back then, secretly, Ivan Prophecevich began writing a book called the "Book of World History." It was his record of all of the visions that had come to him through his dreams over the years, as well as those that had been handed down to him from his grandfather. In the book, he described the visions with great detail.

For example, long before World War II started, he predicted its appearance, and even knew the exact date and time when Hitler's Army would attack the Soviet Union in 1941. He promptly informed Stalin of it. Prophecevich also forsaw the victory of the Soviet people, who he knew would win that terrible war, that lasted those “very long four years.” Prophecevich stopped writing his book as he concluded writing the chapter for "The Year 2000." He had received a head wound while living in Berlin in 1945. The trauma had caused his clairvoyance to cease. He could not write any more.

Year by year until his death in 2000 Ivan Prophecevich had keenly observed the unfolding of world events just as he had predicted in his unpublished book. Prophecevich's great hope was that his son - Dimanasus’ father - who looked like a chip off the old block, and whose entire life had been devoted to working for the KGB until he had been killed, would take an interest in the visions in his “Book of the World History.” But either because he was not-so-gifted, or because he had developed a cynical attitude toward anything that he thought to be more communist propaganda, his son just ignored his book. So Ivan never gave it to him as he had hoped to do.

Fortunately, after Dmitri, or "Dimanasus," - Ivan’s grandson - was born in 1970, Ivan noticed something peculiar about him that indicated to him that he might be the one who would continue writing his "Book of World History." Ivan thought that Dmitri was just like him: he looked exactly like him; had the same face; the same character, and even the same gift of clairvoyance. When Dmitri reached his 18th birthday, Ivan gave him his secret book of prophecy. In 2000, Dimanasus’ lost his wife in a tragic car accident, but his daughter Lisa who was riding with her, was spared. After the accident, Lisa developed another remarkable ability. She gradually noticed that she had the ability to see through physical objects. The locals said that she had the gift of "X-ray vision".

So, moving several years in time, it was Dmitri and Lisa, working as a team, who unlocked the answer to the “Dimanasus Prophecy” puzzle about what happened to the twenty dance troupe girls who disappeared in New York in 2005. They also helped Victor, the story's main character, to find the person who had planned everything from the very beginning…