"Temple" is a classic thriller, a difficult odyssey of the soul; payment of the soul for knowledge of the truth. If "Temple" had been published fifteen years ago, there would have been no need to explain who its author was, Igor Akimov, because at that time all young people were reading his "The Boy Who Could Fly" (a book about the nature of talent). If Temple had been published twenty-five years ago, readers would have seen it as just another book from the author of the action films The Ballad of the Gone on a Mission and Monkey Bridge. If "Temple" had been published thirty-five years ago, it would have been accepted as another book by the author of the story "Dot", which - without exaggeration - was read by the whole country. Everyone has their own path to their Temple.