The Skull Mantra

Former inspector general of the Ministry of Economy in Beijing, Shan Tao Yun is now a road laborer in what is now Chinese-occupied Tibet. With the help of the Buddhist monks who work and share living space with him in the Tibetan gulag, Shan's spiritual strength helps him survive his physical and emotional hardships. When Shan discovers the headless body of a local official, a shrewd, conniving colonel orders him to find the killer or else risk the brutal deaths of the monks. While the colonel has already pegged an innocent monk as the prime suspect, Shan smells conspiracy. As this unlikely investigator conducts his search for the killer through a twisting political labyrinth, readers may get a concise look at Tibet under siege.