Written by: John D Revill.
Submitted By: John D Revill
In the remote Karakoram, a crippled Tibetan monk is rescued from a blizzard by Pakistani troops. In Sydney, Australia, almost a year later, a Buddhist scholar is cruelly garroted in a ritual killing. These two seemingly unconnected events are strands in a thread which plunge Jack Taylor back into the hostile, frozen world of deadly intrigue. Tracked across the roof of the world, Taylor, a female companion, Morgan Griffiths, and a Tibetan lama, Dorje Zangpo, uncover the key to to a political gambit begun in 1959. Then, captured by Chinese troops, Taylor is wounded in an ambush by Tibetan irregulars. Rescued by a band of nomads and pursued by a column of Tibetan Militia, Taylor and Morgan finally reach safety in India only to discover they have been reported dead and that an Indian intelligence officer is determined the official record shall stand.
The author has traveled widely for both pleasure and and in the course of researching internal security and counter-terrorism measures. He has visited the Indian sub-continent on a number of occasions. He is an Australian citizen and has lived in Brisbane, Sydney and Perth. He currently lives with his wife, Barbara, in Mississippi.
Brigadier Brian H. Cooper, ADF., (Retired), has been a columnist writing on defense and foreign affairs since 1985 and is the author of "The Diaries of Genghis Khan." He comments on the novel: "The prologue to this book takes only two and one half pages but when you have finished reading it you cannot put the book down. You are forced to read on, to seek the answers to the questions the prologue presents to you. Although the setting of the book is 1976-1978, the story refers back to 1959 and is relevant to the current situation that exists in the border region of Pakistan, India, Nepal, Tibet and China. It is a good book, a good story.
