The Stone Council

As a child, Diane Thiberge had been the victim of an assault. Now aged 30, an ethnologist specialising in the study of predatory animals, and a woman adept in the martial arts, she believes she has at last found a meaning and purpose to her life when she decides to adopt a five year old Thai boy, Liu San, whom she christens Lucien. On her return to France, however, Lucien is involved in an accident and is declared to be brain dead. A series of murders make Diane realise that her son in no ordinary child, but someone who, through no fault of his own, has fallen prey to sinister paranormal forces. In a denouement that takes her from Paris and Germany to the remote mountain fastnesses of Mongolia, she resolves to fight for her son's survival.