The Missing Hair Shirt: The Franciscan Trilogy

In Volume III of ‘The Franciscan Trilogy’–-‘The Missing Hair Shirt’–-Ex-pope, Franciscan Dom Masone and his friend Professor Symon Carpenter travel to Beijing in a desperate attempt to save the life of a fellow Franciscan. Under surveillance and followed by a ruthless Chinese Security Colonel bent on their execution, they illegally enter mysterious Tibet. Their adventure begins when their pilotless aircraft strikes a mountain peak and spins out of control over the Himalayas. An old friend, living and teaching at a Tibetan monastery, provides clues to the location of The Missing Hair Shirt. Risking their lives, guided by a strange mystic, and spied upon by poison cult-tribes–-they climb the impenetrable Himalayas. Drenched by torrential rains and hindered by mudslides, they’re forced to endure a perilous white water raft journey down the world’s most dangerous river–-through the snaking Yarlung Tsangpo Gorge. Treading on death’s door, they make a mind-boggling discovery that if disclosed, would threaten to turn the world’s scientific community into chaos. Adventure and breathtaking excitement, combined with an unexpected turn of events that even Dom and Symon could not have foreseen, concludes this acclaimed trilogy by author William R. Park, Sr.