Book description
'Summoning is a dangerous thing. To the old Buddhists, words were the
most dangerous weapon of all.'
Shan Tao Yun is a former investigator for the chinese government who
once got a little too close to the truth. Now he breaks rocks in a
Tibetan prison camp high in the Himalayas. Only the remarkable courage
of the Buddhist monks who are his fellow prisoners give him the will
to survive.
But when a smartly dressed headless corpse is discovered on the
bleak moutainside, Shan is forced to become a detective once more. And
as he uncovers a web of intrigue involving a beautiful American mining
engineer, Tibetan sorcerers, corrupt Chinese officials and the
Buddhist Resistance, he begins to realise that far more than his own
survival is at stake.
Eliot Pattison is a world traveler and frequent visitor to China,
whose numerous books and articles on international policy issues have
been published on three continents.
The Skull Mantra
is his first work of fiction and won him the Edgar award for Best First
Novel from the Mystery Writers of America.
