About the book: 2015 / The priests of Ancient Babylon, the greatest magicians on the planet, believed our human world to be a pale imitation of the World of the Gods, its imperfect reflection, recreated from primeval chaos through magical life-giving rays of the invisible Black Sun falling from the abode of the celestials through a poorly closed door. That is why the priests gave their city the proud name Bab Ilu - the Gate of the Gods, although they found it difficult to indicate exactly where they were located. Unlike the elders of the mysterious tribe of the Fire-Headed Guardians, who live in the upper reaches of the great Amazon River, they know very well where the treasured palace is located. It lies on top of the gigantic White Tower, rising in the very heart of impassable swamps; the elders call it the Cradle of Everything. The guards are not like their Indian neighbors; for the aborigines they are strangers, aliens who appeared in time immemorial from across the “big water.” By the way, the Fireheads still shy away from sushi, preferring man-made islands made of vines, and draw their cosmogonic ideas from wooden tables filled with texts reminiscent of Sumerian cuneiform. The elders say that tables used to be made of clay. Descendants of Babylonian priests in the Amazon wilderness? This bold hypothesis costs Percy Offset, the famous British traveler and explorer, dearly. When Sir Percy dares to tell the scientific community about the Gate, which he saw with his own eyes, the ridicule of his colleagues turns into accusations of lies. A traveler declared a charlatan becomes an outcast. Of course, no one takes his words seriously. In addition to the artist Konstantin Vyvikh, who despaired of looking for Shambhala in the Himalayas, and his patron Felix Dzerzhinsky, the all-powerful chairman of the Cheka-OGPU. The latter simply has no other choice. Lenin died suddenly in Gorki, near Moscow, without bothering to name an heir. A battle of Kremlin clans for power is coming. To forestall her, Iron Felix decides to send a special-purpose expedition to the Gates... This time the cover was proposed by the publisher