About the book: 2014 / June 1914. On the eve of the First World War, Klim Panteleevich Ardashev again had to leave his quiet family life in Stavropol and go - who would have thought - to Persia! A terrible crime occurred - the second secretary of the Russian embassy was killed. There are suspicions that this is the work of Islamic fanatics. Ardashev will have to not only find the real killer, but also find out where half a million rubles, allocated for the construction of an Orthodox church in Tehran, disappeared.