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"Small-town Alaskan 'Harry' Harrington is a legend in a small circle, once the world's greatest extreme skier, racing avalanches and knocking back-flips off of cliffs. Peter Harrington is a world-famous financier, hated across the globe for making hundreds of millions of dollars on his hedge fund, and fleeing New York to begin a new venture in Shanghai. Finally, there is Pete Harrington, a middle-aged rock star, now touring third-tier venues and fleeing bankruptcy, but hoping that one great new song can rescue him. All are seeking something that has slipped away: youth, power, purpose, magic"--

Comisario Miguel Fortunato has been in the Buenos Aires police for a long time. Perhaps too long. His pockets have seen more than half a million dollars in bribes over the years. But that's just the way it is. He hasn't done as much wrong as some of his colleagues, but he never managed to tell his wife, before she died, where most of their money was coming from. Now he has a delicate problem. Some time ago, Robert Waterbury, an American novelist, was found shot dead on Fortunato's patch. Officially it was a drugs deal gone bad. But now the Americans are sending someone over - though nobody's sure why they've sent Athena, a human rights professor - and the case is reopened. Athena soon finds that here in Buenos Aires, the truth is way down anyone's list of priorities.

Dies ist einerseits ein Kriminalroman, in dem Andy Mann in den überraschenden Tod seines Freundes verwickelt wird. Es ist andererseits ein mystischer Roman, der den Helden durch die fremde fernöstliche Welt Asiens führt - mit ihren exotischen Gerüchen, Farben, geheimnisvollen Bräuchen. Die Reise endet in einem entlegenen Kloster in den Tiefen der Inneren Mongolei.