White Khan
In Outer Mongolia 1921, a Jewish mining executive faces off against a fanatical Russian warlord, Baron Ungern-Sternberg, to shield his community from pogroms as Urga collapses.
Project Overview
“One is driven by prophecy. The other, by a fierce determination to carve his own destiny, protect the woman he loves and save his community. On the frozen frontier of Asia, their clash—and the trail of a legendary lost fortune—will change the course of history.”
Russia, 1918. The Bolsheviks have executed the Tsar, plunging the fractured empire into a savage, lawless civil war. Out of the ashes rises Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg—a brilliant, unhinged cavalry officer consumed by a terrifying mystical vision. Rejecting the modern Western world, he believes he is the vessel of an ancient Buddhist prophecy. His mission: to unite the nomadic horsemen of the East, storm the sacred capital of Urga, shatter the Chinese occupation, and liberate the blind, captive Living God—the Bogd Khan—before unleashing a holy, monarchist crusade to sweep the Red tide back into the sea.
But a holy war requires an empire’s ransom. Rumors swirl across the Transbaikal of the legendary Romanov gold—tons of imperial bullion and treasury reserves vanished into the Asian wilderness. Whoever controls the gold controls the fate of Eurasia.
Caught dead center of this fanatical storm is Israel-Eli Zanzer, a pragmatic, formidable mining engineer managing the sprawling, multi-national Mongolor gold mining concession. Zanzer has no interest in crowns, prophecies, or holy crusades; he is a man of action, operating out of Urga’s tight-knit, resilient Jewish trading community to keep human lives solvent amidst total collapse and pogroms. Armed with his wits, his mastery of the supply lines, and a cache of mining dynamite, Zanzer navigates the chaos with iron resolve. Amidst the freezing violence of the steppe, he finds an anchor—a romance forged out of alliance with Uka, a spirited Mongolian woman who knows her horses and the hidden mountain passes better than any map.
As the Baron successfully breaches Urga, frees the Bogd Khan, and converts the Mongolor headquarters into his fabled war treasury, Zanzer’s world is thrown into a deadly crucible. To save Uka, his family, and his community from the Mad Baron’s tightening paranoia and bloody inquisitions, Zanzer must play a high-stakes psychological game of survival—balancing the fire of a relentless love against the ultimate prize: the lost gold of the Romanov dynasty.
Based on the true, blood-soaked history of iron, prophecy, and vanished fortunes on the wild frontier of Asia.