On the advice of an old friend of the family, an aged Siberian shaman living in the Altai mountains, Lukas bids farewell to his father, Sergei, to go in search of a native American medicine man in the southwestern United States. But his journey takes him to a place he never envisioned while trying to discover more about his mother who had died during childbirth in New York City. Can Roy Savage, his mother's widowed and aging husband living on Park Avenue, provide him with any answers? And what about Katya, the seductive young woman he meets accidentally in Central Park who will accompany him on his westward trek? Finally, how will an impending military clash between the 'old Atlanticists' and the 'new Eurasianists' impact this existential quest of self-discovery? He may find answers to his quest. But after his unanticipated military misadventure literally explodes across the mountainous terrain of the Russian Altai, Lukas must first regain his memory, and then find his way back from the very edge of Mongolia