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 . . .
- ISBN10 0330452126
- ISBN13 9780330452120
- Publish Date 2 January 2009
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 October 2012
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Pan Books
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 512
- Language English