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The Skull Mantra

Eliot Pattison

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The Skull Mantra won the 2001 Edgar Award for Best First Novel. 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. Methodical, clever Shan is the best man for the job, but he too is a prisoner, deported to Tibet for offending someone high up in Beijing's power structure. Granted a temporary release, Shan is soon pulled into the Tibetan people's desperate fight for its sacred mountains and the Chinese regime's blood-soaked policies. Then, a Buddhist priest is arrested, a man Shan knows is innocent. Now time is running out for Shan to find the real killer.

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Publisher
Century
Year
2000
ISBN-13
9780712680493
Genre
Crime & ThrillerFiction
Topics
Murder investigationPolitical oppression in TibetCultural identity and Buddhism

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