In this third installment of the Changjai Lamasery adventure series, the Grand Regent has summoned Jake Striker and his wife Mei, from Los Angeles, to the mysterious valley; home of the Changjai Lamasery. Jake is accompanied by Mei, his stunningly beautiful wife who is an exotic blending of Chinese and Mongolian and possesses a fierce temper. Jake had arranged an intricate system of purchasing goods for the valley in Ulaanbaatar: A true believer driver and his son would transport the supplies to the frontier and an armed caravan would then carry the supplies on horseback to the valley entrance.

The driver’s young son has gone missing. Being missing is serious enough, however, he knows the source of the Lamasery’s gold. The ancient Lamasery clings to the valley’s granite walls with eagle’s talons and has been protected through the centuries by true believers of the Buddhist religion. The missing young man has fallen into the arms of a scheming wife whose husband is connected by blood to the leader of a vicious street gang. Jake and Mei must ferret out the determined gold seekers before they can make their way across the rolling steppes to the frontier. Add bandits to the golden vortex, descendants of bandits that plundered the Great Silk Road, and their task seems almost insurmountable.