Secret Agenda

March 30, 2009. Terrorists attack a police academy in Lahor, Pakistan. In the ensuing gun battle 12 are killed.
Nearly 80 years earlier Omar Ahmad, the son of a Sunni cleric was born in Lahor, India. He was educated in England, Cambridge, and returned to Lahore, by then a border city in Pakistan. He traveled with several mystics friends to the ancient Himalayan country of Bhutan to study its Tantric form of Buddhism, introduced years before by a Tibetan lama. After arriving back in Pakistan, he had dreams of goods telling him to form a community to carry forth a new way of life, solemn and mystic, with the cultures he found in Bhutan. He and his friends chose Germany as the place to begin this new life, they settled on land outside of Frankfurt, and they began recruiting more followers. Ahmad changed his name to Shabdrung and named the community Ngawang, both after the Tibetan lama. Among the new recruits were Stephen Boras, a young lawyer from California, and Jackie Green, a black engineer from New York. Boras changed his name to Nahir and Green to Jamaar. The followers became known as the Ngawangeesh.
The proximity of Ngawang to urban population soon became a major problem. The mystical and unusual customs of the Ngawangeesh created suspicion, particularly by government officials who refused to remove regulatory road blocks to Shabdrung's plans. Shabdrung finally moved his community to eastern Pennsylvania. But here again they were too close to urban areas, where their customs bread suspicion and negative reaction. Shabdrung realized that he needed a remote location to develop his plan. A former partner of Nahir found an abandoned ranch in the rural desert of southeastern Sherman County in Oregon, which Shabdrung bought in the late '70s, settled his flock there, and began development of a permanent Ngawang.
This is the beginning of the story in Secret Agenda. From there a fascinating tale follows of the shady acquisitions, private and public, that resulted in the expansion of Ngawang, and of numerous court battles that developed, bring the principal character, lawyer Barry O'Shea, and his legal team into the saga to repel Shabdrung's agenda.