Bone Rattler: A Mystery of Colonial America

Bone Rattler: A Mystery of Colonial America
by Eliot Pattison

Bone Rattler: A Mystery of Colonial America
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Author: Eliot Pattison
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-12-28
ISBN: 1593761856
Number of pages: 464
Publisher: Counterpoint

Book Reviews of Bone Rattler: A Mystery of Colonial America

Book Review: The Skull Mantra Redux
Summary: 2 Stars

"Bone Rattler" was the first Eliot Pattison book I read and I really liked it (with the exception of the seemingly dense protagonist),liked it until I read "The Skull Mantra" that is. If you've read the Skull Mantra you've pretty much read "Bone Rattler". It appears Mr. Pattison did a cut and paste job when writing "Bone Rattler". Substitute Native Americans for Tibetans and indentured Scots slave laborers/political prisoners for Tibetan/Chinese slave laborers/political prisoners and it's pretty much the same book. Had I not read "The Skull Mantra" I would have given "Bone Rattler" a better review, but, I did and I feel a bit cheated by Mr. Pattison.

Summary of Bone Rattler: A Mystery of Colonial America

Aboard a British convict ship bound for the New World, Duncan McCallum witnesses a series of murders and seeming suicides among his fellow Scottish prisoners that thrusts him into the bloody maw of the French and Indian War. As the only man aboard with any medical training, Duncan is ordered to assemble evidence to hold another prisoner accountable for the deaths ? or face punishment that will mean his own death. His conclusions suggest that the wave of violence is somehow linked to the "savages" of the American wilderness. Duncan?s suspicions that the prison company is to be sacrificed in the war seem to be confirmed when he learns that they are all indentured to Lord Ramsey?s estate in the uncharted New York woodlands, a Heart of Darkness where multiple warring factions are engaged in physical, psychological, and spiritual battle. Following a strange trail of clues that seem half Iroquois and half Highland Scot, mesmerized by the Lord Ramsey?s beautiful daughter, and frequently defying death in a dangerous wilderness populated by grizzled European settlers, mysterious scalping parties, and Indian sorcerers, Duncan McCallum, exiled chief of his near-extinct clan, finds the source of all evil at the site of an Indian massacre.

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