This adventurous novel takes the reader to the mystical lamasery in Tibet where the white python is worshipped by underworld creatures and the high priestess Gynia. It is another saga by Mark Channing where our hero is the British Secret Service Agent Colin Gray. General Dalziell of the British Foreign Office sends our hero to Tibet to defeat an outlaw called Choijieff. Choijieff plans to take over Tibet, kill the Dalai Lama and make himself the king of Tibet to fulfill an ancient prophecy. Will our hero succeed?