This book is a work of fiction but Russian and China are real enough. The incredible feats of certain lamas in Tibet are also real and almost beyond belief. They were featured in The National Geographic Magazine, sometime back in the 1980's. The power of extrasensory perception is up for grabs but endorsed by most in the scientific community. The question in the story is; can the Chinese and Russians stop one particular lama from getting out of Tibet and exposing their evils which threaten the world? Getting this lama out becomes the assignment given to an American Lieutenant Colonel in the Marine Corps and a Major in Her Majesty's Rangers. It's not a given, so don't count on it | To Kill a Lama by Paul L. Daniell, Paperback | Indigo Chapters