The Lord of Death

I like the way that Pattison manages to interweave the plot and the characters of his novel with the history
and, especially, the landscape of Tibet without diverging too sharply into the didactic. The novel's main weakness is that a number of the characters are hard to distinguish one from another; Pattison does not do enough to separate their personalities, and it doesn't help that his main character persists in threatening one person after another in the same way: Beijing will realize how you've made a mess of things and you'll lose
everything that separates us. As an American with an interest in both China and Tibet, I think that Pattison's
decision to make his main character a Chinese person sympathetic to Tibetans and forced to live show more in Tibet in a manner not much elevated above the Tibetans yields some really interesting perspectives, though I am sure that both Tibetans and Chinese might construct things differently. show less

This is the 6th in the series (Shan Tao Yun). I want to go back and read the rest! The series is set in Tibet and the main character, Shan, is an exiled Chinese national. Informative perspective on the conditions Tibetans are living under ... really interesting characters.

The sixth Shan Tao Yun book. In this one, Shan is working the slopes of Mt. Everest, hauling dead bodies away when he witnesses two traffic accidents and murders. The premise moves along like the rest of the series, with Shan interviewing people as he dodges the authorities. His two previous traveling partners, a pair of Tibetan lamas from the other books, are not with him on this journey and are missed.

I've read the whole series, and this book seemed to deal more with the murder story and not as much with "color," like the ways of the people and the landscape. There is still a lot of good China/Tibet details, but without the two lamas, Shan's character, and the book itself, seems to have lost some of the spirituality that it had in show more previous volumes. Still, I would recommend it, especially if you've been following the series. show less

if you're looking a political intrigue, culturally informative, and an asian Sherlock Holmes, without the racist stereotypes then try this series. It is not as good as the first ones but still holds its own.

i picked this book up at a library sale because it looked interesting. The book was good with many twists and was hard to firgure out who did it to the very end. I enjoyed learning a bit about the history of Tibetan culture

I thought I'd already reviewed this book, but obviously not. There isn't all that much to add to my earlier reviews, except for one thing. At the start of this book I feared the worst for the hero and others. After I'd finished the book at least I can hope for more titles in the series, which is great. If my nerves can handle more... LOL.

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> L'ex-inspecteur Shan a été libéré du camp de travaux forcés où il était enfermé depuis des années. Il n'a plus qu'un seul objectif : arracher son fils à la sinistre prison-hôpital où il croupit. Sur le point d'y parvenir, il est arrêté, inconscient et couvert de sang, près du cadavre d'un ministre.
—Le soleil