1958, at the top of the Rockies, the C.I.A. opened Camp Hale to train Tibetan Resistance fighters. This novel is a love story.
A fictional occurrence of non-fiction events, Leadville 300 Days Away, is the story of a Tibetan Resistance fighter who falls in love with a girl from his hometown of Litang just before the Chinese invade. Tenzing, narrowly escapes to Lhasa, not knowing if this girl whom he'd just met has survived, or even, if his younger brother, almost like a son to him, has made it out alive. Turns out, both do manage to escape alive. Tenzing meets up with his brother immediately in Lhasa and is transported to a training camp near Leadville, Colorado, where he learns to fight and shoot American guns under the training of the C.I.A.. He is not reunited with Matseidha, however, the girl fell in love with, until much later, in Darjeeling, India, after a mass exodus from Lhasa. Tenzing had been a part of seeing His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, through the mountains to safety and exhile. Leadville is a compelling love story, a historical fiction, many interesting dets. of the harrowing events that actually took place between Tibet and the small CIA camp in Leadville between 1958 and 1972.