Never Kill Twice is set in Tibet and India with events flowing to the United Sates.

AUTHOR”S VEWPOINT OF TIBET

This land is an offspring of the continental divide in which a single colossal continent split apart. Then one segment, the Indian subcontinent, plowed northward through the ocean and crashed into Eurasia. The tectonic plates collided and heaved with ferocity to create the Himalayas where the Mount Everest stood supreme. Clouds sailing across this soaring land deposited massive layers of ice on the mountains. Rivulets of melting ice poured into the Brahmaputra-Tsangpo River, which tore through the terrains ravaged by earthquakes. Chill winds and dust storms raged across the ever-shifting plateaus and mountains. In the aftermath, life appeared. Moonscapes played host to pale-eyed snow leopards and red deer. Shadows of cranes glided across the undulating land, where the yaks roamed free. No human could have ventured to challenge the harshest elements in the world here. And yet they came in hordes and named this place Tibet.

What brought the natives here remains a mystery. Perhaps it was their quest for the Creator, deemed accessible only from high places. This mindset could have facilitated the acceptance of Buddhism by a once feudalistic nation, which eventually evolved to a peaceful theocracy. And so it remained until, in a savage turn of events, a foreign regime with ulterior motives took hold. Whether this was unfair or unjust is for the world to judge, but it seemed to be a good backdrop for my novel, Never Kill Twice.