Softcover

ISBN 10: 014002137X ISBN 13: 9780140021370

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1977

Reissued in paperback, a thriller about a man who goes to Tibet to search for his missing brother. He arrives at a monastery and finds himself caught up in the struggle between the abbess, a she-devil in her 18th incarnation, and the invaders of her kingdom. From the author of THE NIGHT OF WENCESLAS.

From the Publisher:

8 1.5-hour cassettes

About the Author:

Lionel Davidson was born in 1922 in Hull, Yorkshire. He left school early and worked as a reporter before serving in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. His first novel, The Night of Wenceslas, was published in 1960 to great critical acclaim and drew comparisons to Graham Greene and John le Carre. It was followed by The Rose of Tibet (1962), A Long Way to Shiloh (1966), The Chelsea Murders (1978) and Kolymsky Heights (1994). He was thrice the recipient of the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award and, in 2001, was awarded the CWA's Cartier Diamond Dagger lifetime achievement award. He died in 2009.