Summary

In “Himachal Pradesh,” Laks learned of the atrocities being done in China to its minorities. He also learned that at the Line of Actual Control, China was pushing the border of its country further south, taking in parts of India that had been buried under glaciers in the mountains.

Laks decided to fight the Chinese and began working with an apparatus that deprived him of oxygen, somewhat like the oxygen-starved atmosphere of the Himalayan Mountains. Several people who met Laks and watched him train decided to join his quest until he had a following the narrator compares to the Lord of the Rings.

In “The Chihuahuan Desert,” the train took Saskia and the others across T.R.’s Flying S Ranch into the mountains near Mexico’s border with the United States.

At the complex that housed the Biggest Gun in...