Deep in the heart of Tibet, Shan Tao Yun, an exiled Chinese national and a former Beijing government Inspector, is caught between the brutal Chinese army and a Western oil company. Shan has agreed to lead an expedition to return the eye of an idol, stolen almost a century ago and recently, clandestinely recovered, to a distant valley, an act that will fulfill an important Tibetan prophecy. But the pilgrimage turns into a desperate flight when the monk who is to lead them is murdered. Shan also discovers that the stone was stolen back from a brigade of the Chinese army that is now in hot...
Deep in the heart of Tibet, Shan Tao Yun, an exiled Chinese national and a former Beijing government Inspector, is caught between the brutal Chines...
In an earlier time, Shan Tao Yun was an Inspector stationed in Beijing. But he lost his position, his family and his freedom when he ran afoul of a powerful figure high in the Chinese government. Released unofficially from the work camp to which he'd been sentenced, Shan has been living in remote mountains of Tibet with a group of outlawed Buddhist monks. Without status, official identity, or the freedom to return to his former home in Beijing, Shan finds himself in the midst of a baffling series of events. During a ceremony meant to rededicate an ancient and long destroyed monastery, Shan...
In an earlier time, Shan Tao Yun was an Inspector stationed in Beijing. But he lost his position, his family and his freedom when he ran afoul of a...
Winner of the 2001 Edgar Award for Best First Novel, The Skull Mantra was a sensation when first published and received wide acclaim from critics and readers alike. The Skull Mantra is ranked as a novel about a people and a place--the Tibetans of the high Himalayas--as it is a gripping thriller.
The corpse is missing its head and is dressed in American clothes. Found by a Tibetan prison work gang on a windy cliff, the grisly remains clearly belong to someone too important for Chinese authorities to bury and forget. So the case is handed to veteran police inspector Shan Tao Yun....
Winner of the 2001 Edgar Award for Best First Novel, The Skull Mantra was a sensation when first published and received wide acclaim from critics a...
In Water Touching Stone, the sequel to the internationally acclaimed The Skull Mantra, Shan Tao Yun is cloistered in a remote Tibetan sanctuary when he receives shattering news. A teacher revered by the oppressed has been found slain and, one by one, her orphaned students have followed her to her grave, victims of a killer harboring unfathomable motives. Abandoning his mountain hermitage, Shan Tao Yun, a former Beijing police inspector who has been exiled to Tibet, embarks on a search for justice. Shadowed by bizarre tales of an unleashed 'demon, ' Shan braces himself for even...
In Water Touching Stone, the sequel to the internationally acclaimed The Skull Mantra, Shan Tao Yun is cloistered in a remote Tibetan sa...
Ermittler Shan, der in Peking in Ungnade fiel und nach Tibet verbannt wurde, fand in einem geheimen Kloster Unterschlupf. Hier bittet ihn der Lama um Hilfe bei der Aufklrung des Mordes an einer Lehrerin. Gemeinsam mit einem alten Mnch und einem Widerstandskmpfer macht sich Shan in den Norden auf, um das Rtsel zu lsen.
Ermittler Shan, der in Peking in Ungnade fiel und nach Tibet verbannt wurde, fand in einem geheimen Kloster Unterschlupf. Hier bittet ihn der Lama um ...
In diesem Fall soll der vielen Lesern bereits wohlbekannte, ehemalige chinesische Polizist Shan helfen, eine heilige steinerne Figur in ein fernes Tal im Norden Tibets zurckzubringen, um eine alte tibetanische Prophezeiung zu erfllen. Aber der Mnch, der die Expedition fhren sollte, wird ermordet und stirbt vor den Augen der Gruppe. Jetzt erst erfhrt Shan, dass die Figur den chinesischen Besatzern gestohlen wurde. Offenbar ist die halbe Armee hinter ihr her. Doch warum soviel Aufwand wegen einer Steinfigur? Shan sprt, dass hinter der Sache viel mehr steckt, als zunchst zu erkennen ist ... Ein...
In diesem Fall soll der vielen Lesern bereits wohlbekannte, ehemalige chinesische Polizist Shan helfen, eine heilige steinerne Figur in ein fernes Tal...
Niemand wei, warum Shan aus Peking verbannt wurde. Nun arbeitet der ehemalige Polizist in einer tibetischen Strafkolonie - bis eine Leiche gefunden wird. Shan, vom Arbeitsdienst freigestellt, soll rasch herausfinden, wer den Mann ermordet hat, und macht sich auf in die Berge. Er stt auf Klster und Hhlen, in denen die Tibeter ihren Widerstand gegen die chinesischen Besatzer organisieren und muss sich entscheiden, auf welcher Seite er steht. Eliot Pattison erhielt fr seinen engagierten Erstlingsroman Der fremde Tibeter den Edgar Allan Poe Award 2000.
Niemand wei, warum Shan aus Peking verbannt wurde. Nun arbeitet der ehemalige Polizist in einer tibetischen Strafkolonie - bis eine Leiche gefunden wi...
Tief in den Bergen von Tibet gert Shan in einen Krieg, den chinesische Besatzer gegen internationale Kunstruber fhren. Als Shan sich weigert, fr die Chinesen zu ermitteln, wird er erpret: Kooperiert er nicht, so wird er seinen gefangengehaltenen Sohn niemals wiedersehen. Mit dem Scharfsinn eines Meisterdetektivs und der Weisheit eines buddhistischen Mnchs kmpft er fr die Wahrheit.
Tief in den Bergen von Tibet gert Shan in einen Krieg, den chinesische Besatzer gegen internationale Kunstruber fhren. Als Shan sich weigert, fr die C...
Thirty years after global holocaust, the colony of Carthage still struggles to build its new world. While steam engines and other early industrial technology have empowered its economy, the fragile society is undermined by secret crimes, rifts between generations, government censorship, and a legacy of casting out those who suffer from radiation sickness. Embittered survivor Hadrian Boone--once a revered colony founder--has been hounded by despair and the ghosts of his past into a life of drunkenness and frequent imprisonment for challenging the governor's tyranny. But when a gentle old...
Thirty years after global holocaust, the colony of Carthage still struggles to build its new world. While steam engines and other early industrial tec...
Despite the raging war between French and British, Scottish exile Duncan McCallum has begun to settle into a new life on the fringes of colonial America, traveling the woodlands with his companion Conawago, even joining the old Indian on his quest to find the last surviving members of his tribe. But the joy they feel on reaching the little settlement of Christian Indians is shattered when they find its residents ritually murdered. As terrible as the deaths may be, Conawago perceives something even darker and more alarming: he is convinced they are a sign of a terrible crisis in the...
Despite the raging war between French and British, Scottish exile Duncan McCallum has begun to settle into a new life on the fringes of colonial Ameri...