Ergebnis für "Eliot Pattison" in Literatur & Belletristik

Als Bergführer getarnt, hat Shan nur ein Ziel: seinen Sohn zu sehen, der im gefährlichsten Lager Tibets interniert ist. Unterwegs stößt er auf ein verunglücktes Auto: Eine tote Chinesin liegt mit einer Schusswunde hinter dem Steuer, die Beifahrerin stirbt in seinen Armen. Shan wird festgenommen, kommt aber schnell wieder frei. Man hat bereits einen Schuldigen gefunden: Oberst Tan - der Mann, der Shan einst verhaftete und der als Einziger seinen Sohn retten könnte...

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.

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 fifth in Eliot Pattison's Bone Rattler series, Savage Liberty - a fast-paced mystery built around historical figures and set against the haunting backdrop of dying woodland tribes - follows exiled Scotsman Duncan McCallum on a thrilling journey down the road to revolution. When a ship arriving from London explodes in Boston Harbor, both the peace of the colonial city and Duncan McCallum's life are shattered.