A first installment in a new series finds a medically trained Scottish prisoner witnessing a series of ritual murders and apparent suicides aboard a New World-bound convict ship and ordered at the risk of his own life to identify which of his fellow inmates is responsible.
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"[M]oving characters, intricate plot and masterful evocation of the time."
Eliot Pattison is the author of "The Skull Mantra", which won the Edgar Award and was a finalist for the "Gold Dagger", as well "Water Touching Stone" and "Bone Mountain". Pattison is a world traveler and frequent visitor to China, and his numerous books and articles on international policy issues have been published around the world.
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