Book description
When the Abbot spoke, his voice was thin and resigned. 'It is the end
of our monastery. By nightfall I will be dead and our walls will lie
shattered. A terrible evil is coming from the forest . . .' A monastery
in Tibet is overrun with Chinese soldiers searching for a sacred relic.
The monks flee to seek refuge in hidden caves, but their progress is
hampered by an injured stranger, whose presence threatens them all . . .
Journalist Nancy Kelly receives a parcel containing a mysterious trumpet
made of bone, and hears an account of a Westerner penetrating into a
hidden kingdom in Tibet, where orchids cover the earth, pagodas hug the
hills and soaring cathedrals hide underground. Soon she embarks on a
dangerous journey into an ancient land of myth and legend, in search of
a secret older than time itself . . .
Tom Martin lives in Oxford.
