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    Eye of the Raven

    By Eliot Pattison

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    From the Edgar Award–winning author of Bone Rattler. “Evocative language, tight plotting, and memorable characters make this a standout” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
     
    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.
     
    “The pleasures of Eliot Pattison’s books, and Eye of the Raven is another smashing example, are threefold: high adventure in perilous landscapes, a hero stubbornly seeking the truth, and the haunting mysteries of ancient cultures.” —Otto Penzler, editor of The Big Book of Female Detectives
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateDec 10, 2009
    ISBN9781582436821
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    Eliot Pattison

    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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      Sequel to the excellent "Bone Rattler." Duncan McCallum’s continuing adventures among the Indians, British army, and French enemy of Colonial America, featuring his relationship with Conawago, an Iriquois shaman who is accused of the crucifixion style murder of a Virginian officer they both discover in the woods and try to save to no avail.Hungry for revenge and instant frontier justice, the outpost commander arrests Conawago and threatens to hang him for the murder he didn’t commit. Almost immediately, it’s apparent that “big conspiratorial things” are behind this ritualistic killing, and our Highland hero draws on his medical training, native wit, and the wisdom of his experience from life among Native Americans to get to the bottom of the mystery surrounding ongoing provincial treaty negotiations, the struggles between tribal factions, early efforts at creating an “underground railroad” for fleeing African slaves, and secret land deals involving white colonials in 1760s North America.Pattison is sure and confident, handling historical detail and the occasional historical figure with deftness. Duncan is a sympathetic hero whose own story reflects and parallels the lives of his Native American friends as both their cultures are being destroyed by the onslaught of more powerful and greedy Europeans. So far, the books are lively, full of action as well as human insight. First rate historical fiction.