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1973. Peace Corps Volunteer Greg Sobieski thinks something is happening in the Hindu Kush Mountain involving blue radiance, sickness, and death. No one believes him—not the Peace Corps and certainly not the Afghans who view foreigners as incompetent and stupid. While investigating, a massive earthquake occurs. Greg is assumed dead and Russia invades Afghanistan. 1989. The Soviets confide to the U.S. the reason for their invasion and request help to search the Kush. A U.S. “geological mission” gains Afghan permission to climb the mountain with the only Russian acceptable to the ruling tribal leaders, a professor from Afghanistan’s single university. The Americans do not suspect that the professor has his own agenda and that rebel Islamic fundamentalists are following them. They do know that a still-young Greg was recently seen on the Kush emitting an azure glow and is rumored to have been involved in the Soviet aggression.