The place a high plateau in the heart of asia, Shan has long been the holy site where men are tested in the deepest secrets of Eastern mysticism are revealed. But it has been violated by a vast Shadow organization of opium warlords, whose tentacles threatened to strangle China as a nation and to destroy the carefully built balance of world power perhaps Forever The Challenge this is the legacy of Jake maroc, to help China build and fulfill its ancient destiny. And this Mission he is oldent by his father's fishing, and impassioned by Bliss a woman who has raised the ACT of love to its most explicit form. But at this most crucial moment in his life, he has lost ba-mahk- the inner spiritual strength that acts as a powerful telepathy, a weapon he must use against his deadly enemies, the kgb, the Japanese Yakuza, and the diverse forces within China herself. Within the future of the world hanging in the balance, he must conquer a mysterious Force more threatening than any he has ever confronted and resistant Force Within himself.