Eliot Pattison Knihy

Strhující detektivní román, odehrávající se v kulisách nedostupných hor a tajemných zřícenin klášterů, zabydlený sympatickými postavami, přináší zejména živý a hluboký pohled na Tibet a vůbec území Himaláje. Příběh se odvíjí na pozadí buddhistického kultu a snahy čínské vlády víru potlačit. Zdiskreditovaný bývalý inspektor Šan Tao Jun z Pekingu žije od svého neoficiálního propuštění z pracovního tábora v odlehlých tibetských horách. Poslední rok trávil s mnichy postavenými mimo zákon, nemá žádné oficiální postavení, přišel o svou identitu a nemůže se ani vrátit do svého domova v Pekingu. Teď však ve zříceninách místního kláštera došlo k vraždě a právě ti lidé, díky nimž je Šan ve vyhnanství, ho žádají o pomoc. Při řešení záhadného případu, do kterého se zapojuje FBI, čínští ministři i britští charitativní pracovníci, Šan cestuje z Tibetu do Pekingu, a dokonce až do Spojených států, aby našel souvislosti mezi vraždou, ukradenými uměleckými díly a tajemnou postavou z minulosti… Je zmítán pochybnostmi, nakonec se však vždy řídí svou osobní morálkou, přes všechnu bolest, kterou to působí jeho duši.

The much anticipated tenth and final installment in the internationally acclaimed Inspector Shan series, which launched with the Edgar-winning novel SKULL MANTRA.

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"Pattison has few peers when it comes to integrating historical events into a complex but plausible whodunit plot." --Publishers Weekly (starred and boxed review)When a ship arriving from London explodes in Boston Harbor, both the peace of the colonial city and Duncan McCallum's life are shattered. Summoned by his new friend John Hancock to a beach awash with the bodies of the victims, Duncan discovers that the ship was deliberately sabotaged, apparently to cover the theft by French agents provocateurs of a secret document being carried to the Sons of Liberty. Hancock refuses to let him take his evidence to the authorities, for this is 1768 and relations with the government are so sour that officials are being hanged in effigy.Fearing that the intrigues of Hancock and the Sons might set the colonies ablaze, Duncan relentlessly pursues the truth, only to be falsely charged with treason and murder. To escape the hangman's noose and restore his honor, Duncan has no choice but to follow a northbound trail of violence and deception while being relentlessly hounded by bountymen and vengeful soldiers. With the help of unexpected new friends, including Ethan Allen, aged natives, and outlawed Jesuits, he survives scalp hunters, imprisonment, and his own spiritual crisis, only to realize he cannot resolve the terrible crimes until he first understands the emerging truths about freedom in the American colonies.

Shan und der tote Mönch Mit seinem Freund und Lehrer Lokesh hilft Shan einem Mönch eine Gebetsstätte, die von Chinesen zerstört wurde, wieder aufzubauen. Doch plötzlich ergreift der Mönch eine Pistole – und erschießt sich. Selbst der sonst so gelassene Lokesh ist entsetzt. Shan versucht herauszufinden, warum der Mönch sich getötet haben könnte. Und er stößt in einem Kloster auf drei weitere Tote: eine tibetische Nonne, einen Chinesen und einen dritten, den er später als deutschen Filmemacher identifiziert. Doch wie hängen diese Morde zusammen? Kann tatsächlich ein Mönch der Mörder sein? Shan begreift, dass nur die amerikanische Freundin des Filmemachers Auskunft geben kann, doch sie ist irgendwo im Hochland verschwunden. Und nicht nur er beginnt sie zu suchen, sondern auch die chinesischen Behörden. Doch von unerwarteter Seite erhält Shan Hilfe. Meng, eine chinesische Offizierin, unterstützt ihn. Shan, der Ermittler, ist zurück und ermittelt – weise wie ein Mönch, klug wie ein Meisterdetektiv. »Pattison verbindet profunde Informationen über die Unterdrückung des tibetischen Volkes mit spannenden Handlungen anspruchsvoller Kriminalromane.« Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger

The Chinese minister of tourism has been assassinated on the slope of Everest. Shan, a former investigator from Beijing, must solve the mystery of the assassination to save the accused man, the only person who can help his imprisoned son.

When disgraced former inspector, Shan Tao Yun joins a group of reverent Tibetans returning a sacred artefact to its home, it seems he has at last found the peace he has struggled for since leaving prison. What starts as a spiritual pilgrimage, however, quickly turns into a desperate flight through the Tibetan wilderness as the outlawed monk who guides them is murdered and Sham discovers that the artefact has recently been stolen from the Chinese army. But why is the army so desperate to find the artefact entrusted to Shan? Why is an aged medicine lama being stalked by government agents? Why has an American woman, a geologist for an oil company, abandoned the project and fled into the mountains? Shan discovers not answers, but only new mysteries as he is drawn to such unexpected places as the raucous headquarters base of the Western oil venture and a monastery that seems more attuned to the teachings of the party than those of Buddha. And the further he travels into the mountains, the more Shan realises that what is at stake is not only justice but the spiritual survival of those who have joined his strange quest. At the heart of Pattison's powerful tale is a story of a brave, oppressed people who have learned to endure by drawing strength from their land and their rich spiritual traditions.

Shan, a former Inspector in Beijing, lost everything after clashing with a powerful government figure. Now living among outlawed Buddhist monks, he has no status, official identity, or the freedom to return to his previous life in Beijing.

A simple task to retrieve some artifacts turns into a nightmare of deceit when Duncan McCallum finds himself the target of those obsessed with keeping America under British rule in this thrilling historical novel from an Edgar Award–winning author. When Duncan McCallum is asked by Benjamin Franklin to retrieve an astonishing cache of fossils from the Kentucky wilderness, his excitement as a naturalist blinds him to his treacherous path. But as murderers stalk him Duncan discovers that the fossils of this American incognitum are not nearly as mysterious as the political intrigue driving his mission. The Sons of Liberty insist, without explaining why, that the only way to keep the king from pursuing a bloody war with America is for Duncan to secretly deliver the fossils to Franklin in London. His journey becomes a maze of deceit and violence as he seeks the cryptic link between the bones and the king. Every layer that Duncan peels away invites new treachery by those obsessed with crushing American dissent. With each attempt on his life, Duncan questions the meaning of the liberty he and the Sons seek. His last desperate hope for survival, and the rescue of his aged native friend Conawago―imprisoned in Bedlam―requires the help of freed slaves, an aristocratic maiden, a band of street urchins, and the gods of his tribal allies.

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