About the book: 2020 / What could a simple Jew and the future ruler of the Kushan Empire, who conquered Khorezm, Afghanistan and Northern India in the first century AD, have in common? Youth, fearlessness, the desire to achieve a goal in spite of cruel circumstances. Kushan is a political hostage in the capital of the enemies, his task is to survive. But this is where he meets love. The Jew is to find the relics of the Jerusalem Temple; The key to solving the mystery is in his hands. A group of like-minded people goes in search of treasure. Ahead are impassable gorges, stormy rivers, narrow caravan trails. The comrades are dying one after another, but the cherished goal is getting closer. The reader learns what the home of the highlanders looked like at that time, what gods the Hellenes of Bactra prayed to, what the townspeople did at the festival in honor of Aphrodite. And at the end of the novel a surprise awaits him, if, of course, he knows how to read between the lines.