Background
Eliot Pattison was born on October 20, 1951 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. He is a son of Joseph and Jane Pattison.
Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
In 1977 Eliot Pattison received a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from Boston University.
(The corpse is missing its head and is dressed in American...)
The corpse is missing its head and is dressed in American clothes. Found by a Tibetan prison work gang on a windy cliff, the grisly remains clearly belong to someone too important for Chinese authorities to bury and forget. So the case is handed to veteran police inspector Shan Tao Yun. Methodical, clever Shan is the best man for the job, but he too is a prisoner, deported to Tibet for offending someone high up in Beijing's power structure. Granted a temporary release, Shan is soon pulled into the Tibetan people's desperate fight for its sacred mountains and the Chinese regime's blood-soaked policies. Then, a Buddhist priest is arrested, a man Shan knows is innocent. Now time is running out for Shan to find the real killer.
https://www.amazon.com/Skull-Mantra-Inspector-Shan-Book-ebook/dp/B003J5UIGY/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=The+Skull+Mantra&qid=1583239454&s=books&sr=1-1
1999
(In Water Touching Stone, the sequel to the internationall...)
In Water Touching Stone, the sequel to the internationally acclaimed The Skull Mantra, Shan Tao Yun is cloistered in a remote Tibetan sanctuary when he receives shattering news. A teacher revered by the oppressed has been found slain and, one by one, her orphaned students have followed her to her grave, victims of a killer harboring unfathomable motives. Abandoning his mountain hermitage, Shan Tao Yun, a former Beijing police inspector who has been exiled to Tibet, embarks on a search for justice. Shadowed by bizarre tales of an unleashed 'demon,' Shan braces himself for even darker imaginings as he stalks a killer and fights to restore spiritual balance to the ancient and tenuous splendor of Tibet.
https://www.amazon.com/Water-Touching-Stone-Inspector-Shan-ebook/dp/B002GEKJ86/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Water+Touching+Stone&qid=1583239545&s=books&sr=1-1
2001
(Deep in the heart of Tibet, Shan Tao Yun, an exiled Chine...)
Deep in the heart of Tibet, Shan Tao Yun, an exiled Chinese national and a former Beijing government Inspector, is caught between the brutal Chinese army and a Western oil company. Shan has agreed to lead an expedition to return the eye of an idol, stolen almost a century ago and recently, clandestinely recovered, to a distant valley, an act that will fulfill an important Tibetan prophecy. But the pilgrimage turns into a desperate flight when the monk who is to lead them is murdered. Shan also discovers that the stone was stolen back from a brigade of the Chinese army that is now in hot pursuit. Still possessing an investigator's love of truth, Shan faces a perplexing tangle of mysteries. Why are the Chinese so desperate to retrieve the stone eye, why has an American geologist abandoned the oil company's drilling project and fled into the mountains, and why are rumors sweeping the countryside that an ancient lama is returning to liberate this country? As he digs into these questions, Shan realizes that there is more at stake than mere justice: the spiritual survival of his people is in danger as well. Complex and compelling, Bone Mountain is a spectacular achievement from a major voice in crime fiction.
https://www.amazon.com/Bone-Mountain-Novel-Inspector-Shan-ebook/dp/B00FO6PGJK/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Bone+Mountain&qid=1583239724&s=books&sr=1-1
2002
(In an earlier time, Shan Tao Yun was an Inspector station...)
In an earlier time, Shan Tao Yun was an Inspector stationed in Beijing. But he lost his position, his family and his freedom when he ran afoul of a powerful figure high in the Chinese government. Released unofficially from the work camp to which he'd been sentenced, Shan has been living in remote mountains of Tibet with a group of outlawed Buddhist monks. Without status, official identity, or the freedom to return to his former home in Beijing, Shan finds himself in the midst of a baffling series of events. During a ceremony meant to rededicate an ancient and long destroyed monastery, Shan stumbles across evidence of a recent murder in the ruins. Now Shan is being torn between some officials who want his help to search the ruins while others want him to disappear back into the mountains - with one group holding out the tantalizing prospect of once again seeing the son from whom Shan has been separated for many years. In a baffling situation where nothing is what it appears to be, where the FBI, high ranking Beijing officials, the long hidden monks, and the almost forgotten history of the region all pull him in different directions, Shan finds his devotion to the truth sorely tested. Traveling from Tibet to Beijing to the U.S., he must find the links between murder on two continents, a high profile art theft, and an enigmatic, long-missing figure from history... in Eliot Pattison's Beautiful Ghosts.
https://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Ghosts-Novel-Inspector-Shan-ebook/dp/B00DXIEDOK/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Beautiful+Ghosts&qid=1583239865&s=books&sr=1-1
2004
(Shan Tao Yun, formerly an investigator in Beijing, has be...)
Shan Tao Yun, formerly an investigator in Beijing, has been asked to help save a comatose man. The man is believed to be guilty of two murders in which the victims’ arms were removed - but when the detective arrives, he discovers that the suspect is not actually Tibetan, but Navajo. The man has come here with his niece, seeking the ancestral ties between their people and the ancient Bon. Together with his friends, the monks Gendun and Lokesh, Shan must not only sort out the crime’s true perpetrator, but attempt to solve the riddle of a mountain that is said to be the place "where the world begins"...
https://www.amazon.com/Prayer-Dragon-Inspector-Shan-Investigation-ebook/dp/B004HYHASK/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Prayer+of+the+Dragon&qid=1583239957&s=books&sr=1-1
2007
(Unfairly convicted and force into indentured servitude, y...)
Unfairly convicted and force into indentured servitude, young Highland Scot Duncan McCallum finds himself aboard a prisoner ship bound for the New World. A series of mysterious deaths plagues the passengers and claims the life of Duncan’s dear friend Adam Munroe. Enlisted by his captors to investigate, a strange trail of clues leads Duncan into the New World and eventually thrusts him into the bloody maw of the French and Indian War. Duncan is indentured to the British Lord Ramsey, whose estate in the uncharted New York woodlands is a Heart of Darkness where multiple warring factions - the British, rogue Scots, the French, the Huron, and the Iroquois - are engaged in battle. Exploring a frontier world shrouded in danger, Duncan, the exiled chief of his near-extinct Scottish clan, finds that sometimes justice cannot be reached unless the cultures and spirits of those involved are resolved.
https://www.amazon.com/Bone-Rattler-Mystery-Colonial-America-ebook/dp/B003OUX5DM/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=The+Bone+Rattler&qid=1583241384&s=books&sr=1-2
2007
(Shan Tao Yun is an exiled Chinese national and a former B...)
Shan Tao Yun is an exiled Chinese national and a former Beijing investigator, on parole from a Tibetan gulag. One day, he is ferrying a corpse on muleback over the slopes of Chomolungma - Mount Everest - at the request of a local wisewoman who says the gods have appointed this task to him, when he encounters what looks like a traffic accident. A government bus filled with imprisoned Tibetan monks has overturned. Then Shan hears gunfire. Two women in an approaching sedan have been killed. One is the Chinese minister of tourism; the other, a blonde Westerner, organizes climbing expeditions. Though she dies in his arms, Shan is later met with denials that this foreigner is dead. Shan must find the murderer, for it may be the only hope he has for saving his son, Ko - imprisoned in a Chinese "yeti factory" where men are routinely driven mad...
https://www.amazon.com/Lord-Death-Inspector-Shan-Book-ebook/dp/B004HYHAY4/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=The+Lord+of+Death&qid=1583240187&s=books&sr=1-2
2009
(With the aid of the Native American Shaman Conawago, Dunc...)
With the aid of the Native American Shaman Conawago, Duncan McCallum has begun to heal from the massacre of his Highland clan by the British. But his new life is shattered when he and Conawago discover a dying Virginian officer nailed to an Indian shrine tree. To their horror, the authorities arrest Conawago and schedule his hanging. As Duncan begins a desperate search for the truth, he finds himself in a maelstrom of deception and violence. The year is 1760, and while the British army wishes to dismiss the killing as another casualty of its war with France, Duncan discovers a pattern of ritualistic murders related to provincial treaty negotiations and struggles between tribal factions. Ultimately he realizes that to find justice, he must brave the sprawling colonial capital of Philadelphia. There the answers are to be found in a tangle of Quakers, Christian Indians, and a scientist obsessed with the electrical experiments of the celebrated Dr. Franklin. With the tragic resolution in sight, Duncan understands the real mysteries underlying his quest lie in the hearts of natives who, like his Highland Scots, have glimpsed the end of their world approaching.
https://www.amazon.com/Raven-Mystery-Colonial-America-Book-ebook/dp/B003HIXQ2G/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Eye+of+The+Raven&qid=1583241454&s=books&sr=1-1
2010
(Thirty years after global holocaust, the colony of Cartha...)
Thirty years after global holocaust, the colony of Carthage still struggles to build its new world. While steam engines and other early industrial technology have empowered its economy, the fragile society is undermined by secret crimes, rifts between generations, government censorship, and a legacy of casting out those who suffer from radiation sickness. Embittered survivor Hadrian Boone - once a revered colony founder - has fallen into a life of drunkenness and frequent imprisonment for challenging the governor’s tyranny. But when the community’s leading scientist is murdered, Hadrian glimpses chilling secrets behind the killing that could destroy Carthage. He begins a desperate quest into the wrenching camps of the outcasts, escorted by a young policewoman who struggles to cope with the remnants of the prior world. As Hadrian navigates his perilous path, his pursuit of justice becomes a journey of self-discovery.
https://www.amazon.com/Ashes-Earth-Mystery-Post-Apocalyptic-America-ebook/dp/B004TGEDZ4/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Ashes+of+the+Earth&qid=1583241664&s=books&sr=1-1
2011
(In an earlier time, Shan Tao Yun was an Inspector station...)
In an earlier time, Shan Tao Yun was an Inspector stationed in Beijing. But he lost his position, his family and his freedom when he ran afoul of a powerful figure high in the Chinese government. Released unofficially from the work camp to which he'd been sentenced, Shan has been living in remote mountains of Tibet with a group of outlawed Buddhist monks. Without status, official identity, or the freedom to return to his former home in Beijing, Shan has just begun to settle into his menial job as an inspector of irrigation and sewer ditches in a remote Tibetan township when he encounters a wrenching crime scene. Strewn across the grounds of an old Buddhist temple undergoing restoration are the bodies of two unidentified men and a Tibetan nun. Shan quickly realizes that the murders pose a riddle the Chinese police might in fact be trying to cover up. When he discovers that a nearby village has been converted into a new internment camp for Tibetan dissidents arrested in Beijing's latest pacification campaign, Shan recognizes the dangerous landscape he has entered. To find justice for the victims and to protect an American woman who witnessed the murders, Shan must navigate through the treacherous worlds of the internment camp, the local criminal gang, and the government's rabid pacification teams, while coping with his growing doubts about his own identity and role in Tibet.
https://www.amazon.com/Mandarin-Gate-Inspector-Shan-Book-ebook/dp/B008E7SF94/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Mandarin+Gate&qid=1583240387&s=books&sr=1-1
2012
(Despite the raging war between French and British, Scotti...)
Despite the raging war between French and British, Scottish exile Duncan McCallum has begun to settle into a new life on the fringes of colonial America, traveling the woodlands with his companion Conawago, even joining the old Indian on his quest to find the last surviving members of his tribe. But the joy they feel on reaching the little settlement of Christian Indians is shattered when they find its residents ritually murdered. As terrible as the deaths may be, Conawago perceives something even darker and more alarming: he is convinced they are a sign of a terrible crisis in the spirit world which he must resolve. Trying to make sense of the murders, Duncan is accused by the British army of the crime. Escaping prison to follow the trail of evidence, he finds himself hounded by vengeful soldiers and stalked by Scottish rebels who are mysteriously trying to manipulate the war to their advantage. As he pieces together the puzzle of violence and deception he gradually realizes that it may not only be the lives of Duncan and his friends that hang in the balance, but the very survival of the native tribes. When he finally discovers the terrible truth, Duncan is forced to make a fateful choice between his beloved Highland clans and the woodland natives who have embraced and protected him.
https://www.amazon.com/Original-Death-Mystery-Colonial-America-ebook/dp/B00C0JIZ56/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Original+Death&qid=1583241514&s=books&sr=1-1
2013
(In Eliot Pattison's Soul of the Fire, Shan Tao Yun and hi...)
In Eliot Pattison's Soul of the Fire, Shan Tao Yun and his old friend Lokesh are abruptly dragged away by Public Security; he is convinced that their secret, often illegal, 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. Soon he finds that his predecessor was murdered, and when a monk sets himself on fire in front of the commissioners he realizes that the Commission is being used as a tool to whitewash Tibet's self-immolation protests as acts of crime and terrorism. Shan has no choice but to become part of the hated Chinese machine that is devouring Tibet, but when he discovers that the most recent immolation was actually another murder, he realizes the Commission itself is riddled with crime and intrigue. Everywhere he turns, Shan finds new secrets that seem to lead to the last agonizing chapter of his life. He must make a final desperate effort to uncover the Commission's terrible secrets whose painful truth could change Shan's life - and possibly that of many Tibetans - forever.
https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Fire-Mystery-Inspector-Shan/dp/1250118611/ref=sr_1_6?keywords=Soul+of+the+Fire&qid=1583240517&s=books&sr=1-6
2014
(The American Colonies, 1765. As the Stamp Act dissent mar...)
The American Colonies, 1765. As the Stamp Act dissent marks the first organized resistance to English rule, someone is kidnapping and killing members of the Iroquois Nation. Asked by an elder to investigate, Scottish exile Duncan McCallum soon uncovers a network of secret runners supporting the nascent "committees of correspondence," engaged in the political dissent fomenting across colonial borders. But as Duncan follows the trail further, it leads to his capture. Thrown into slavery with the kidnapped runners, Duncan discovers a powerful conspiracy of highly placed English aristocrats bent on crushing all dissent. Inspired by an aged Native American slave and new African friends, Duncan decides not just to escape but to turn their own intrigue against the London lords.
https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Mystery-Colonial-America-Book-ebook/dp/B01C6D0KLM/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Blood+of+the+Oak&qid=1583241591&s=books&sr=1-1
2016
(In Eliot Pattison's Skeleton God, Shan Tao Yun, now the r...)
In Eliot Pattison's Skeleton God, Shan Tao Yun, now the reluctant constable of a remote Tibetan town, has learned to expect the impossible at the roof of the world, but nothing has prepared him for his discovery when he investigates a report that a nun has been savagely assaulted by ghosts. In an ancient tomb by the old nun lies a gilded saint buried centuries earlier, flanked by the remains of a Chinese soldier killed fifty years before and an American man murdered only hours earlier. Shan is thrust into a maelstrom of intrigue and contradiction. The Tibetans are terrified, the notorious Public Security Bureau wants nothing to do with the murders, and the army seems determined to just bury the dead again and Shan with them. No one wants to pursue the truth–except Shan, who finds himself in a violent collision between a heartbreaking, clandestine effort to reunite refugees from Tibet separated for decades and a covert corruption investigation that reaches to the top levels of the government in Beijing, China. The terrible secret Shan uncovers changes his town and his life forever.
https://www.amazon.com/Skeleton-God-Inspector-Shan-Mystery/dp/1250067626/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Skeleton+God&qid=1583240619&s=books&sr=1-1
2017
(After Shan Tao Yun is forced to witness the execution of ...)
After Shan Tao Yun is forced to witness the execution of a Tibetan for corruption, he can’t shake the suspicion that he has instead witnessed a murder arranged by conspiring officials. When he learns that a Tibetan monk has been accused by the same officials of using Buddhist magic to murder soldiers then is abruptly given a badge as special deputy to the county governor, Inspector Shan realizes he is being thrust into a ruthless power struggle. Knowing he has made too many enemies in the government, Shan desperately wants to avoid such a battle, but then discovers that among its casualties are a murdered American archaeology student and devout Tibetans who were only trying to protect an ancient shrine. Soon grasping that the underlying mysteries are rooted in both the Chinese and Tibetan worlds, Shan senses that he alone may be able to find the truth. The path he must take, with the enigmatic, vengeful father of the dead American at his side, is the most treacherous he has ever navigated. More will die before he is able to fully pierce the secrets of this clash between the angry gods of Tibet and Beijing. The costs to Shan and those close to him will be profoundly painful, and his world will be shaken to its core before he crafts his own uniquely Tibetan form of justice.
https://www.amazon.com/Bones-Earth-Inspector-Shan-Mystery-ebook/dp/B07D2BT3QD/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Bones+of+the+Earth&qid=1583240780&s=books&sr=1-1
2019
(When Duncan McCallum is asked by Benjamin Franklin to ret...)
When Duncan McCallum is asked by Benjamin Franklin to retrieve an astonishing cache of fossils from the Kentucky wilderness, his excitement as a naturalist blinds him to his treacherous path. His journey to deliver the fossils to Franklin in London becomes a nightmare of deceit and violence as he seeks the cryptic link between the bones of the American incognitum and the king. Duncan’s last desperate hope for survival, and the rescue of his aged native friend Conawago - imprisoned in Bedlam - requires the help of freed slaves, an aristocratic maiden, a band of street urchins, and the gods of his tribal allies.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07WC5QK3F/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i4
2020
Eliot Pattison was born on October 20, 1951 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. He is a son of Joseph and Jane Pattison.
Eliot Pattison attended Indiana University. In 1977 he received a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from Boston University.
An international lawyer by training, Eliot Pattison has spent his career advising and representing the United States and foreign companies on international investment and trade issues. His extensive publications include over thirty articles on international topics, ranging from research published by several American universities to global policy essays published in Moscow and Tokyo.
As an author, his novel series - "Inspector Shan" depicts current Tibet along with Shan Tao Yum, the former investigator of Beijing Justice Department. This series has been translated into an excess of twenty languages around the world. Another series of his - The Bone Rattler begins with "The Bone Rattler" (2007) and depicts Scottish worker to North America in the provincial years. It happens close to Albany, New York amid the French and Indian War.
(Despite the raging war between French and British, Scotti...)
2013(In Eliot Pattison's Skeleton God, Shan Tao Yun, now the r...)
2017(In Eliot Pattison's Soul of the Fire, Shan Tao Yun and hi...)
2014(When Duncan McCallum is asked by Benjamin Franklin to ret...)
2020(After Shan Tao Yun is forced to witness the execution of ...)
2019(Deep in the heart of Tibet, Shan Tao Yun, an exiled Chine...)
2002(In Water Touching Stone, the sequel to the internationall...)
2001(Unfairly convicted and force into indentured servitude, y...)
2007(With the aid of the Native American Shaman Conawago, Dunc...)
2010(Shan Tao Yun is an exiled Chinese national and a former B...)
2009(Thirty years after global holocaust, the colony of Cartha...)
2011(Shan Tao Yun, formerly an investigator in Beijing, has be...)
2007(In an earlier time, Shan Tao Yun was an Inspector station...)
2004(In an earlier time, Shan Tao Yun was an Inspector station...)
2012(The corpse is missing its head and is dressed in American...)
1999(The American Colonies, 1765. As the Stamp Act dissent mar...)
2016On October 12, 1985 Eliot Pattison married Barbara Hagan, a bank officer. They have three children.