Bone Mountain by Pattison, Eliot - 2004

Paperback. Very Good.

US: Minotaur Books, 2007. Paperback. Good. Deep in the heart of Tibet, Shan Tao Yun, an exiled Chinese national and a former Beijing government Inspector, is caught between the brutal Chinese a rmy and a Western oil company. Shan has agreed to lead an expedition to ret urn the eye of an idol, stolen almost a century ago and recently, clandesti nely recovered, to a distant valley, an act that will fulfill an important Tibetan prophecy. But the pilgrimage turns into a desperate flight when the monk who is to lead them is murdered. Shan also discovers that the stone w as stolen back from a brigade of the Chinese army that is now in hot pursui t. Still possessing an investigator's love of truth, Shan faces a perplexing t angle of mysteries. Why are the Chinese so desperate to retrieve the stone eye, why has an American geologist abandoned the oil company's drilling pro ject and fled into the mountains, and why are rumors sweeping the countrysi de that an ancient lama is returning to liberate this… Read More

Arrow, 2004. Paperback. New. 640 pages. 7.09x4.33x1.38 inches.

Arrow Books Ltd, 2004-07-31. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!