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The Skull Mantra 

 (Inspector Shan, book 1)

by

Eliot Pattison

The Skull Mantra

(The first book in the Inspector Shan series)
(1998)
A novel by

Eliot Pattison

"The Skull Mantra is an incandescent thriller, a compelling, lyrical journey through the harsh, beautiful world of Tibet. Pattison has made his mark the first time out."
Greg Iles


 

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 if serving an indefinite sentence in the gulag for offending the Party in Beijing. Desperate to close the case before an American tourist delegation arrives, the district commander has no choice but to grant him a temporary release. Embittered about everything except his compulsion to find the truth, the brilliant Shan faces an ultimatum: solve the case fast and in a politically expedient fashion, or the Tibetan priests in his work brigade will be punished.When the early evidence shows that the killer was an ancient Buddhist demon and party officials try to thwart his investigation by arresting an innocent monk, Shan is thrown into a malestrom of political and religious intrigue involving American mining interests, Tibetan sorcerers, corrupt party officials, a secret illegal monastery and the Buddhist resistance movement.
 
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February 2000 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0712680594Title: The Skull Mantra
Author(s): Eliot Pattison
ISBN: 0-7126-8059-4 / 978-0-7126-8059-2 (UK edition)
Publisher: Century
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January 2000 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0786222581Title: The Skull Mantra (Thorndike Americana)
Author(s): Eliot Pattison
ISBN: 0-7862-2258-1 / 978-0-7862-2258-2 (USA edition)
Publisher: Thorndike Press
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September 1999 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0312204787Title: The Skull Mantra (Inspector Shan Tao Yun)
Author(s): Eliot Pattison
ISBN: 0-312-20478-7 / 978-0-312-20478-5 (USA edition)
Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur
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September 2008 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0312385390Title: The Skull Mantra (Inspector Shan Tao Yun)
Author(s): Eliot Pattison
ISBN: 0-312-38539-0 / 978-0-312-38539-2 (USA edition)
Publisher: Minotaur Books
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March 2001 : Mass Market Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0312978340Title: Skull Mantra
Author(s): Eliot Pattison
ISBN: 0-312-97834-0 / 978-0-312-97834-1 (USA edition)
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
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November 2000 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0099409798Title: The Skull Mantra
Author(s): Eliot Pattison
ISBN: 0-09-940979-8 / 978-0-09-940979-3 (UK edition)
Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd
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February 2000 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0712680497Title: Skull Mantra
Author(s): Eliot Pattison
ISBN: 0-7126-8049-7 / 978-0-7126-8049-3 (UK edition)
Publisher: Century Pub. Co.
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February 2000 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0712684484Title: Skull Mantra
Author(s): Eliot Pattison
ISBN: 0-7126-8448-4 / 978-0-7126-8448-4 (UK edition)
Publisher: Century
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January 1999 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: B001SLX18ITitle: The Skull Mantra
Author(s): Eliot Pattison
Publisher: Minotaur Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
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December 2000 : Unknown
Cover of ISBN: 0312268475Title: The Skull Mantra
Author(s): Eliot Pattison
ISBN: 0-312-26847-5 / 978-0-312-26847-3 (USA edition)
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September 1999 : Kindle edition
Cover of ISBN: B001J54VFUTitle: The Skull Mantra
Author(s): Eliot Pattison
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September 1999 : Kindle edition
Cover of ISBN: B001R4CMB8Title: The Skull Mantra
Author(s): Eliot Pattison
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