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Englishman Colonel Charles Whitaker forsakes his native country for Islam and the deserts of Arabia. Adapting quickly to this hostile terrain, he soon becomes more Bedouin than British - an almost legendary figure who the Arabs know as 'The Wise One'. Whitaker's illegtimate son, David, is a tough from the Cardiff docks, wanted by the police and who escapes to Arabia to become a geologist. He in turn is followed by Cardiff solicitor George Grant, whose duties as executor take him into a world of sand, heat, desert politics, the intrigues of the big oil companies and the wars of the oil-mad sheikhs. Can father and son meet and reconcile before greed destroys their chances? -
Bob Harlow is an academic; Vern Cugnet is an auto mechanic. Beside this difference, Bob has another distinction - his once-pleasant life in North Dakota is going to hell. Terrible things are befalling Bob, his family and friends: strange infections, nasty infestations, thefts and accidents - one of which is fatal. And Bob realises that the jinx is the result of a side trip he took into Tibet after a year-long sabbatical in China. There, in the Place of the Dead, Bob committed thoughtless sacrilege when he pocketed two mani stones - engraved funeral markers - as souvenirs. No matter what the obstacles, he must return the sacred objects. Vern - naive, crude and indomitable - volunteers to go along and the unlikely companions set out to undo the curse. The trek will take them through China, India and Nepal and involve them in border frays, encounters with holy hermits and bloodthirsty demons and finally, an audience with the Dalai Lama himself.
