Bone Rattler; A Mystery of Colonial America
Language: English
Published by Counterpoint, F222, 2007
Series: Book 1 of 7 - Bone Rattler
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.Last Exit Books
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Condition: Used - Very good
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Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Counterpoint Books, Berkeley, CA. 2007. 464 pgs. Signed by Eliot Pattison on the half-title page. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Counterpoint Books, Berkeley, CA. 2007. 464 pgs. Signed by Eliot Pattison on the half-title page. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In a novel rich in historical detail, acclaimed author Eliot Pattison reconsiders the founding of America and explores how disenfranchised people of any age and place struggle to find justice, how conflicting cultures can be reconciled through compassion and tolerance, and ultimately how the natural world has its own morality. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Counterpoint Books, Berkeley, CA. 2007. 464 pgs. Signed by Eliot Pattison on the half-title page. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In a novel rich in historical detail, acclaimed author Eliot Pattison reconsiders the founding of America and explores how disenfranchised people of any age and place struggle to find justice, how conflicting cultures can be reconciled through compassion and tolerance, and ultimately how the natural world has its own morality.; 6.5 X 1.25 X 9.25 inches; 464 pages.…
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- Title
- Bone Rattler; A Mystery of Colonial America
- Author
- Pattison, Eliot
- Publisher
- Counterpoint, F222
- Publication year
- 2007
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1593761856
- ISBN 13
- 9781593761851
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing.
- Series
- Book 1 of 7: Bone Rattler
The Edgar Award winner’s acclaimed mystery set in colonial America is “The Last of the Mohicans meets Braveheart, with a curious dash of CSI” (Entertainment Weekly).
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.
“Having already won an Edgar for his Inspector Shan series, Pattison makes a strong bid for another with this outstanding” first novel in his acclaimed Bone Rattler series (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
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"A rich and multilayered story that mirrors the complexity of the surrounding land, where few things really are as they seem."
"Breathlessly suspenseful tour of a dangerous and exotic landscape, where opposing forces, political and magical, give way to an eerie mystical truth."
"Set against a background that is alternately bleak and blazingly beautiful, this is at once a top-notch thriller and a substantive look at Tibet under siege."
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