Prayer of the Dragon: An Inspector Shan Investigation set in Tibet - Couverture rigide

Pattison, Eliot

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ISBN 10 : 1569474796 ISBN 13 : 9781569474792

Editeur : Soho Crime, 2007

Synopsis

Praise for the Shan series:

“Nothing I’ve read or seen about how China has systematically crushed the soul of Tibet has been as effective. . . . A thriller of laudable aspirations and achievements.”—Chicago Tribune

“Shan becomes our Don Quixote. . . . Set against a background that is alternately bleak and blazingly beautiful, this is at once a top-notch thriller and a substantive look at Tibet under siege.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“A rich and multilayered story that mirrors the complexity of the surrounding land.”—San Francisco Chronicle

“Pattison thrills both mystery enthusiasts and reader fascinated by, and concerned about, Tibet.”—Booklist

“Pattison has taken an unknown world and made it come alive.”—Library Journal

Summoned to a remote village from the hidden lamasery where he lives, Shan, formerly an investigator in Beijing, must save a comatose man from execution for two murders in which the victims’ arms have been removed. Upon arrival, he discovers that the suspect is not Tibetan but Navajo. The man has come with his niece to seek ancestral ties between their people and the ancient Bon. The recent murders are only part of a chain of deaths. Together with his friends, the monks Gendun and Lokesh, Shan solves the riddle of Dragon Mountain, the place “where world begins.”

Eliot Pattison is an international lawyer based near Philadelphia. His four previous Shan novels, set in Tibet, are The Skull Mantra (which won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel), Water Touching Stone, Bone Mountain, and Beautiful Ghosts.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Eliot Pattison is the author of eight Inspector Shan novels, set in Tibet: The Skull Mantra (which won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel), Water Touching Stone, Bone Mountain, and Beautiful Ghosts, Prayer of the Dragon, The Lord of Death, and Mandarin Gate. This series has been translated into over twenty languages around the world. A former resident of Boston and Washington, Pattison now resides on an 18th-century farm in Pennsylvania with his wife, their three children, and an ever-expanding menagerie of animals.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Soho Crime
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1569474796
• ISBN 13: 9781569474792
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 396
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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