Kingdom

By Tom Martin

Subjects: Buddhist monasteries, Fiction, Monasteries, Women journalists, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, China, fiction, Relics

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. Soon she embarks on a dangerous journey into an ancient land of myth and legend, in search of a secret older than time itself ...