Prayer of the Dragon

Fülszöveg

FICTION/MYSTERY ISBN 978-1-56947-534-8
$14.00 (U.S.)
Shan Tao Yun is an exiled Chinese national, a former Beijing investigator, on parole from the Tibetan work camp to which he had been consigned as • punishment. Summoned to a remote village to save a comatose man from summary execution for two murders, Shan discovers that the unconscious suspect is not Tibetan, but Navajo, and that the recent murders are only part of a chain of deaths. To find the killer, Shan must solve the riddle of Dragon Mountain, the place "where world begins."
Praise for Prayer of the Dragon
"Surprises and mysteries abound here. This novel taught me more about Tibet—modern and ancient—than I had managed to learn elsewhere over the years." —Washington Post
"Once again, Edgar Award winner Pattison demonstrates his mastery."
—Library Journal (starred review)
"Pattison has done more with this eloquent series to convey the plight of the Tibetan people at the hands of their Chinese oppressors than any... Tovább

Fülszöveg

FICTION/MYSTERY ISBN 978-1-56947-534-8
$14.00 (U.S.)
Shan Tao Yun is an exiled Chinese national, a former Beijing investigator, on parole from the Tibetan work camp to which he had been consigned as • punishment. Summoned to a remote village to save a comatose man from summary execution for two murders, Shan discovers that the unconscious suspect is not Tibetan, but Navajo, and that the recent murders are only part of a chain of deaths. To find the killer, Shan must solve the riddle of Dragon Mountain, the place "where world begins."
Praise for Prayer of the Dragon
"Surprises and mysteries abound here. This novel taught me more about Tibet—modern and ancient—than I had managed to learn elsewhere over the years." —Washington Post
"Once again, Edgar Award winner Pattison demonstrates his mastery."
—Library Journal (starred review)
"Pattison has done more with this eloquent series to convey the plight of the Tibetan people at the hands of their Chinese oppressors than any writer of nonfiction could possibly achieve." —Denver Post
Praise for Eliot Pattison's 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
"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, where few things are as they seem Pattison takes readers to a quietly troubled part of the world and peels away at the centuries of culture that have come into conflict." —San Francisco Chronicle Vissza