Eliot Pattison Livres

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

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.

Disgraced former Beijing Inspector Shan Tao Yun has been living in the remote mountains of Tibet since his unofficial release from a work camp. Without status, official identity, or the freedom to return to his former home in Beijing, he's lived with the forbidden lamas for the past year. But now there's apparently been a murder in a ruined monastery and the very officials who exiled Shan are after his help. In a baffling case involving the FBI, Chinese Ministers, and British relief workers, Shan travels from Tibet to Beijing to the U.S. to find the links between murder, missing art, his former gulag, and his own long-unseen 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.

As the drumbeat of the American Revolution grows ever closer, Scotsman-turned-American-patriot Duncan McCallum must navigate treacherous cultural and political waters if he’s to secure a fighting chance for the fledgling nation in this gripping installment of the acclaimed Bone Rattler series After narrowly avoiding death in London at the hands of the king’s secret agents, Duncan McCallum returns to colonial America only to discover that his troubles have followed him across the Atlantic. The harbor town of Marblehead, Massachusetts, is a smoldering powder keg as British loyalists and advocates for liberty feverishly maneuver to determine the future of the colonies. When a Native American sailor is scapegoated for the gruesome murders of officers of the British occupation troops, McCallum will have to face off against ruthless adversaries close to the crown. Soliciting the assistance of such notable historical figures as John Hancock, Crispus Attucks, and John and Samuel Adams, McCallum must rely on his skills in science, subterfuge, and diplomacy to stave off a war for which America is not yet prepared. Just as Patrick O’Brian’s Master and Commander series took readers on a thrilling journey through the Napoleonic Wars, Freedom’s Ghost and the Bone Rattler series offer riveting historical adventures embedding readers in the clashes and intrigue of the American Revolution.

The news that a venerated teacher has been murdered sends an unlikely band of outcasts into the remote northern reaches of the Tibetan plateau. Two old Tibetans travel to restore the spiritual balance disturbed by violent death. A sullen resistance fighter races to battle a new foe. But Shan Tao Yun, former Beijing investigator and newly released from four years of prison camp, sets out to find justice.In the dangerous borderlands of western China, however, justice is elusive. Vengeful officials, soldiers, smugglers, secret Buddhists and the remnants of the proud Muslim clans all stand in the way of Shan's pursuit of a serial killer whose terrible motives lie buried in the Tibetan struggle.

When Shan Tao Yun and his old friend Lokesh are abruptly dragged away by Public Security, he is convinced that their secret support of struggling Tibetans has brought their final ruin. But his fear turns to confusion as he discovers he has been chosen to fill a vacancy on a special international commission investigating Tibetan suicides.

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 man, the colony's leading scientist, is murdered, Hadrian glimpses chilling secrets behind the killing that could destroy the colony. Realizing that he may be the only one able to expose the truth, Hadrian begins a desperate quest through the underbelly of the colony into the wrenching camps of the outcasts, escorted by a young policewoman who struggles to cope with the physical and emotional remnants of the prior world. Ultimately Hadrian's journey becomes one of self–discovery, and to find justice his greatest challenge is navigating the tortuous path of the human spirit in a world that has been forever fractured.

When a headless corpse is found by a prison work gang on a windy Tibetan mountainside, veteran police inspector, Shan Tao Yun might seem the perfect man to solve the crime - except that he himself is serving an indefinite sentence. Desperate to close the case, the district commander has no choice but to grant him a temporary release.

In a novel rich in historical detail, acclaimed author Eliot Pattison reconsiders the founding of America and explores how disenfranchised people of any age and place struggle to find justice, how conflicting cultures can be reconciled through compassion and tolerance, and ultimately how the natural world has its own morality. Aboard a British convict ship bound for the New World, protagonist Duncan McCallum witnesses a series of murders and apparent suicides among his fellow Scottish prisoners. A strange trail of clues leads Duncan into the New World and eventually thrusts him into the bloody maw of the French and Indian War. Duncan is indentured to the British Lord Ramsey, whose estate in the uncharted New York woodlands is a Heart of Darkness where multiple warring factions are engaged in physical, psychological, and spiritual battle.

That night, with the storm howling relentlessly, Grace is woken by a child crying. Grace is desperate to leave, but Charles remains unaffected by the eerie stillness of the house. Is it just Grace's imagination or do the owners, and Charles, have something to hide?THANK YOU FOR STAYING AT THE ANCHORAGE.

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

Der Schotte und der Schamane Amerika im Jahr 1760 – Franzosen kämpfen gegen Engländer, um die Vorherrschaft. Beide Seiten versuchen sich die Unterstützung der Indianer zu sichern. Mit Hilfe des Schamanen Conawago hat der Schotte Duncan McCallum das Massaker an seinem Clan überlebt, das von den Engländern verübt wurde. Nun ist er zusammen mit Conawago in den Wäldern unterwegs. Als sie einen sterbenden Offizier der Engländer finden, der an einen Baum genagelt worden ist, geraten sie wieder in Schwierigkeiten. Conawago wird verhaftet, weil man ihn für den Mörder hält. Um ihn zu retten, macht Duncan sich daran, die Wahrheit dieses Mordfalls herauszufinden. Bald erkennt er, dass es noch mehr Ritualmorde gegeben hat. Irgendjemand hat ein großes Interesse daran, Verhandlungen zwischen Indianer und Kolonisten zu stören. „Der letzte Mohikaner trifft Braveheart – mit einem Schuss CSI.“ Entertainment Weekly

Tibet sehen … Shan, der ehemalige Ermittler aus Peking, ist zum Polizisten ernannt worden. Als eine alte Nonne niedergeschlagen wird, versucht er, den Täter ausfindig zu machen – und gerät gleich in Schwierigkeiten. In einer Gruft, die von der Nonne bewacht wurde, werden drei Leichen gefunden: ein alter Lama, der als Heiliger verehrt wird, ein Soldat, der seit ungefähr fünfzig Jahren tot ist – und ein etwa vierzigjähriger, westlich gekleideter Mann, der allenfalls vor ein paar Stunden ermordet wurde. Shan findet heraus, dass der Tote ein Amerikaner ist, dessen Mutter vor vielen Jahren aus Tibet in die USA geflohen ist. Zeugen meinen, eine Frau an dem Grabmal gesehen zu haben: eine Frau mit auffällig grünen Augen. »Pattison ist ein intimer Kenner der tibetischen Kultur. Detektiv Shan ist für den Leser auch Reisebegleiter durch eine fremdartige Welt.« Nürnberger Nachrichten

„Wer Tibet verstehen will, muss Pattison lesen!“ TAZ Shan wird in ein abgelegenes Bergdorf gerufen. Ein Fremder, der so schwer verletzt ist, dass er im Koma liegt, hat angeblich zwei Tibeter getötet. Shan stößt auf Ungereimtheiten: Die Leichen wurden bereits abtransportiert, in der Nähe einer Goldmine hat ein Deutscher sein Lager aufgeschlagen. Als der Fremde aus dem Koma erwacht, wollen die Dorfbewohner ihn töten. Shan erwirkt einen Aufschub - und erlebt die Überraschung seines Lebens. So weise wie ein Mönch, so klug wie ein Meisterdetektiv - ein neuer Roman um Shan, den Ermittler.

Das Mysterium von den Orkneyinseln Cato Pike ist ein Veteran des amerikanischen Geheimdienstes. Als sein Vater, ein renommierter Historiker, ihn um einen Gefallen bittet, stimmt Cato widerwillig zu. Er soll in einer Abtei auf den sturmgepeitschten schottischen Orkneyinseln ein geheimnisvolles Paket abholen. Sein Auftrag und sein Leben ändern sich schlagartig, als er erfährt, dass der alte Schotte, der ihm das Paket übergeben sollte, gefoltert und ermordet wurde. Kurz darauf wird eine Nonne aus derselben Abtei in Neuengland getötet. Cato begreift bald, dass er in einen mörderischen Kampf mit mehreren Geheimdiensten geraten ist – an seiner Seite hat er nur eine wortkarge schottische Polizistin. Ein sehr atmosphärischer Thriller über Mythen, Legenden und Geheimdienste, der über die Orkneyinseln, die USA bis nach Deutschland führt