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SHATTUCK had been hearing whispers something like that for months. There was a High Priest of Darkness reaching out for control of the world. Sometimes he was the Kara Kanpo, sometimes the Namche Goro--the Midnight Apostle, so to speak. But by whatever title he was known, he was always the same. The titles meant the same thing. They meant the Black Abbot.
-"A Tsen," as the Tibetans called him, "One of the Mighty," He'd already got the Dalai Lama under his thumb and was holding him as a hostage. He had the Red Sect back of him, the Bon-po, which was supposed to be the oldest religion in the world and dealt in magic.