In Mandarin Gate, Edgar Award winner Eliot Pattison brings Shan back in a thriller that navigates the explosive political and religious
 landscape of Tibet.
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.
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