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Character Sketch

Andrew "Pond" Foworthy – bold, daring, 6-foot-tall native of NYC; called to Mongolia; spends time with two different clans—a Mongolian clan and a Kazakh clan

Duulgii – Lugsalkhaan's half-Russian brother-in-law, Kazakh clan

Dusbhan – Gan-gaad's nephew and gunman, Mongolian clan; adopted brother of Zima

Gan-gaad – Mongolian clansman chief who hates foreigners

Jugder – large Kazakh with only two fingers on his right hand

Li Chong – Chinese interrogator

Lugsalkhaan – head of a Buddhist Kazakh clan

Luyant – Gan-gaad's brother and mute clansman, Mongolian clan; owner of Zima

Kandal – elderly Kazakh nomad

Manai – orphaned 5-year-old boy, Kazakh clan

Randy Erickson – American missionary for 20 years to Eastern Mongolia

Rex – American pilot from Eastern Turkey

Sembuuk – skilled Kazakh hunter

Sergeant Xing – Chinese infantry officer

Zima – Russian-Kazakh woman, owned by clansman Luyant, Mongolian clan