![]() Fortunately the book is anything but an Eastern fantasy sold in the back alleys of Thailand. must be scary, filled with those pagan rituals. An exotic-sounding book title to pull in the mystic desperates. The Skull Mantra is quite misleading a title because it sounds like one of those "22-year-olds with no second name.Hi I'm Kimberly" to quote Meg Ryan from You've Got Mail. Pattison is a well-established non-fiction writer, whose core focus has always been international policy issues. That cleared, I can now be completely objective in my work. Let's get a few things out of the way before I start on the review of the book The Skull Mantra is evocative, sublime and a brilliant thriller. ![]() But in the words of 13th century Sufi poet Jalalu'ddin Rumi: "Knock on a door, knock, knock enough times, And a head will come forth from behind." And truly enough, Eliot Pattison's debut effort was delivered at my doorstep last week. A bright new spark hovering on the horizon, was nowhere to be seen.Īs 2001 appeared closer, my expectations turned into doubt. ![]() Novels that weave magic, words that spring to life, travelling into dark lands and taking you with them. Quite a few this year have been good, but none worth writing home about. ![]() Books by new authors are specifically picked up by this column. ![]()
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