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During July of 1951 Adam is traumatized on the family farm in Wisconsin. He's unable to tell his parents what happened to him in the barn. Burdened by his secret, the ten-year-old boy begins to exhibit bazaar behavior. His worried parents don't know how to help him. They are preoccupied with earning a living and their own secrets. Adam's father, Giovanni Montanya, leaves the farm each morning to work on the assembly line at Nash Motors with Uncle Pete. Both men were drafted into the army after Pearl Harbor and suffer from the horrors of the war as the Korean War escalates. Adam's mother,...

Carl Brecht, an anthropologist, returns to Nepal with his daughter, Kathy, to attend a convention involving the Paramedic Training of Shamans. They don't expect to become entangled with conspirators, who assassinate the royal family and their guests at a dinner party on June 1, 2001, an actual historical event. The setting of this mystery and adventure novel begins with domestic stress in a Chicago suburb, where Carl lives with his wife, Barbara, and their to two children, Kathy and Mark. Their problems are minor compared with the strife taking place at the royal palace in Kathmandu during a...

This is Dominic's fifth novel about the adventures of Carl Brecht, an anthropologist, who lives with his wife, Barbara, in an Illinois suburb. Their relationship becomes strained when Carl's Nepalese colleagues from the University of Chicago invite him to go on a pilgrimage to Mount Kailash in Tibet during the month of August in 2013. Barbara is disturbed by her dreams about Carl travelling to Nepal and trekking in Chinese occupied Tibet during the monsoon season. Her fear escalates after reading in the newspaper that 60,000 Hindu pilgrims from India were stranded in the Himalayas due to the...