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The Lord Of Death (2009)

by Eliot Pattison(Favorite Author)

4.23 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1569475792 (ISBN13: 9781569475799)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Soho Crime

series

Inspector Shan

review 1: Sixth in a strong series, this volume has former Beijing Inspector Shan (who was banished for investigating corruption among powerful party leaders) out of the gulag and in the relative calm of internal exile in a remote Tibetan village. The murder of the Tourism Minister, a missing female American climber, stolen statues of the Lord of Death, a new Religious Affairs officers bent on destroying monasteries and and connections to the American-backed Tibetan resistance 40 years before cause the local authorities to coerce Shan back into detective work with millions in foreign climbing money at stake.
review 2: Eliot Pattison writes mysteries set in modern Tibet. His protagonist is a Han Chinese sentenced to imprisonment in Tibet after he investigated corruption... more in the highest levels of government instead of pretending the blindness that was expected of him. He sympathizes greatly with the Tibetan people whose culture has been almost but obliterated by the Chinese. These books are dense with information and emotion. Its impossible not to feel some of the enormous loss that Tibet has suffered. All the characters are engaging even the most corrupt official. The spiritualism of the Tibetan monks is so appealing and frustrating at the same time as they endure the loss of their culture as part of a greater pattern rather than resist it. Yet this same endurance allows them to disconnect from the physical brutality of their captors. less

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