Esta serie transporta a los lectores a las remotas montañas del Tíbet, siguiendo a un ex inspector chino caído en desgracia en busca de justicia y redención personal. Las narrativas visualmente ricas tejen expertamente tramas criminales intrincadas con profundas perspectivas sobre el complejo mundo del budismo tibetano y los choques culturales. Cada entrega ofrece no solo misterios por resolver, sino también exploraciones de la dignidad, la compasión y el impacto duradero de los conflictos históricos.
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.
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 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.
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.
Der seit vielen Jahren in tibetischer Verbannung lebende chinesische Ermittler Shan soll in einem abgelegenen Bergdorf zwei Morde aufklären. Er stösst auf ein schier undurchdringliches Gewirr von Rätseln und Geheimnissen, die sich alle um den Tatort, den heiligen Berg des Schlafenden Drachen, ranken. Hier gibt es einen geheimen Pilgerpfad, von dem nie jemand zurückgekehrt ist, und hier tummeln sich allerhand fremdartige oder zwielichtige Gestalten, darunter illegale Goldsucher, ein verrückter Lama und ein alter amerikanischer Navajo, der hier mit seiner Nichte nach möglichen gemeinsamen Wurzeln von tibetischer und indianischer Kultur forscht. - 5. Fall für den Ermittler Shan.
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.
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.
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.
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
The much anticipated tenth and final installment in the internationally acclaimed Inspector Shan series, which launched with the Edgar-winning novel SKULL MANTRA.