Grasslands — D.G. Leigh

Grasslands will take its reader on a rip-roaring, sweeping adventure across the romantic wild lands of Mongolia and beyond. Handsome New Yorker Myron Gehrig an avian paleontologist, whilst on his gap-year is backpacking through the majestic Orient. Chang Soo is an aspiring murderous cog within the rising ranks of the Mongolian Mafia machine. The pair are about to violently cross paths. A meeting that will later rip asunder the ancient steppes to heaven with the technological explosive roar of the 21st century. Left for dead, Myron is found and taken to a remote community where he must face a new journey of discovery. Qiufang is the beautiful, innocent, female assigned the task of nursing him back to health. Chang, still on the run, continues to play a deadly game of cat and mouse with both the pursuing police force and other sinister members of his own underworld fraternity. For Myron and Chang this is only the beginning... Both men are set on a collision course that will bring them back full circle for one final climactic battle. ...Ground zero Qiufang and her tranquil village. One man brings a merciless army, empowered by a breakaway Russian state. ...The other, told an ancient myth that a “man made of light” will stand alone to expel a monstrous evil. Myron Gehrig, an ordinary man is about to discover if that's true ....