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The Second Rule of Ten

A Tenzing Norbu Mystery seriesbook 2 of 5Next:The Third Rule Of Ten(2014) →

"Beware your old, limited models of thinking: no matter how safe they make you feel, eventually you will become their prisoner." That's the second rule of Ten.

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Tenzing "Ten" Norbu—ex-monk and ex-cop—is back! In The Second Rule of Ten,the next book in the Dharma Detective series,our daring detective faces a dead Hollywood producer, an ailing philanthropist's missing sister, and a way-too-sexy pathologist, who are all wreaking havoc with his serenity—and that's beforethe arrival of cartel king and arch-nemesis Chaco Morales. As Ten moves deeper into the case, things get personal when his two best friends in Dharamshala go missing, and his former LAPD partner, Bill, turns oddly distant. Ten's journey for the truth propels him from gang-ridden, dangerous Boyle Heights in east LA to Lhasa, Tibet, and back again. He must wrestle with more than one limiting thought and inner enemy if he is to identify, much less overcome, his rapidly multiplying outer ones. The clues to solving this complex cluster of mysterious events are sprinkled all over the City of Angels, but the ultimate answers, as always for Ten, lie inside.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 352 pages

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