Author:Eliot Pattison
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.
Indiana Jones meets The Da Vinci Code. Look out, Dan Brown
—— BooklistA rollicking adventure, with nonstop action and suspense
—— Publishers Weekly'A compulsive page-turner which will appeal especially to anyone who was spellbound by Charles Palliser's The Quincunx'
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—— Sunday TelegraphThis series places Indridason at the centre of the best of contemporary crime fiction. He is a master storyteller, and has a real gift for evoking the complex humanity at the heart of the most dour-seeming individuals.
—— The GuardianMost people will find The Daughter Of Time as interesting and enjoyable a book as they will meet in a month of Sundays
—— ObserverA detective story with a very considerable difference. Ingenious, stimulating and very enjoyable
—— Sunday TimesJosephine Tey has always been absolutely reliable in producing original and mysterious plots with interesting characters and unguessable endings
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