Chapter 40
Jianjun, Kira and Renata found themselves crossing the Torugart Pass into China with Hank Bennett, Stuart Eliot and their bodyguards. Jianjun was curious about the strings Hank Bennett must have pulled to have been allowed to bring rifles into the country. That was all but unheard of. He asked, but Bennett refused to say.
Renata spoke to the guards in the Uyghur language about Michael. They remembered the man she described and told her he had entered China the prior morning traveling with a group of Buddhist monks on the way to Kashgar.
Renata bubbled with joy as she told Jianjun and Kira, who met the news with both relief and not a little wonder. Jianjun had called Charlotte Reed on the satellite phone the night before and again that morning to ask if she had heard from Mich
