Chapter Ledger
Thirty chapters in three acts. Three years. One warlord's crusade across Siberia and the Mongolian steppe — and the merchant who shielded a community inside it.
Please note: all chapter and episode titles below are working titles and may change in the final book and series adaptation.
The Romanovs die in a basement. A cavalry officer swears a private war.
A decadent warlord capital, a mining concession, and cursed imperial bullion.
Little Xu takes Urga's sacred seals. The monasteries begin to whisper.
Two warlords part at Dauria. One rides south into the winter.
A blind living god under house arrest opens a channel to a foreign baron.
Imperial bars go into the furnace. Clean bullion comes out.
A ring of fire on Bogd Khan Uul. A garrison counts an army that isn't there.
A hidden minyan, a midnight bargain, and a man who pledges his own neck.
Forty below, machine guns in the lanes, and a retreat into the snow.
A broken division survives the Kherlen on credit and alliances.
Sixty riders breach a palace in daylight and carry a god over a mountain.
Three prongs, charges blown from within, and a pogrom in the streets.
A living god returns to the throne and makes a foreigner a Khan.
A banker faces down a colonel at the vault door.
A loft above the concession becomes a sanctuary and a forgery shop.
The Beiyang garrison breaks north — and the Baron looks past the border.
Astrologers give the Baron 130 days.
Mukden finds the gold trail and quietly cuts the credit lines.
Nomad ceremony, ancient vows, and a household built for survival.
The Fifth Red Army mobilizes. A tribunal opens a file on the Banker of Urga.
Sipailov's men copy the loft's roll. The shield begins to crack.
Wrestling, archery, and horses — one last day of peace before the storm.
An apocalyptic proclamation and a treasury train riding north.
Cavalry meets armored cars and aircraft. The spell of invincibility breaks.
Rezukhin is murdered. Machine guns rake the Baron's tent in the dark.
Bound by his own riders and handed to a Red scout patrol.
Six hours in a summer theater, then midnight on the 130th day.
Urga collapses. Caravans run south into the desert.
A family crosses the pass into sanctuary, carrying a symbol.
The fates of the survivors, the lost gold, and a city renamed.
The Complete Story
All thirty chapters — the Romanov gold, the liberation of Urga, and the Jews of Mongolia — in the historical thriller White Khan.
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