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When the Abbot spoke, his voice was thin and resigned.
‘It is the end of our monastery. By nightfall I will be dead and our walls will lie shattered. A terrible evil is coming from the forest...’
A monastery in Tibet is overrun with Chinese soldiers searching for a sacred relic. The monks flee to seek refuge in hidden caves, but their progress is hampered by an injured stranger, whose presence threatens them all...
Journalist Nancy Kelly receives a parcel containing a mysterious trumpet made of bone, and hears an account of a Westerner penetrating into a hidden kingdom in Tibet, where orchids cover the earth, pagodas hug the hills and soaring cathedrals hide underground.
Soon she embarks on a dangerous journey into an ancient land of myth and legend, in search of a secret older than time itself...
About the Author
Tom Martin lives in Oxford.
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1.5 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews)
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
slow-moving, Jun 23 2009
By Brenda Pink "snorkelgeek" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Kingdom (Paperback)
This book was fairly slow moving, especially the second half, when I expected things to pick up a bit when the story moved to Tibet. Many bits of the storyline were left with nowhere to go - dead ends so to speak. The story was not very plausible and not very realistic. The storyline was not meshed together well and secondary characters had no development. I would have placed this story more in a fantasy genre.
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sincere review, please dont buy this, Jun 25 2009
By A. Sharf "Just a reader" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Kingdom (Paperback)
I read books occasionally but I do consider myself to have very good judgement on them. Kingdom has some good historical, geographical, and mystical background as well as fiction put together that must have taken author tom martin a lot of time and effort. That aside, the book was written with way too much insignificant detail, so much so that probably half the book was describing scenery, obvious logical buildups, and other descriptions of little to no importance that is not only boring but a complete waste of time. I kept interest simply in the events hoping they would go somewhere interesting... they dont. I spent most of the book expecting an adventure right around the corner only to find myself with an irrelevent conclusion that left me screaming at the waste of effort and hope I put into this book. It was an ok idea that goes completely haywire and leaves no meaning whatsoever. After reading this, I see the philosophical idea that Tom Martin tries to represent, however he does so terribly with almost a "pointlessness" of it in the book itself. I have never written a book review before but I felt compelled to do so now to hopefully save people from "Kingdom." Do not read this and for G-ds sake please do not buy this!
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