The Edgar Award winner’s acclaimed mystery set in colonial America is “<i>The Last of the Mohicans</i> meets <i>Braveheart</i> with a curious dash of <i>CSI</i>”. —Entertainment Weekly<br><br>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.<br><br>Duncan is indentured to the British Lord Ramsey whose estate in the uncharted New York woodlands is a Heart of Darkness where multiple warring factions-the British rogue Scots the French the Huron and the Iroquois-are engaged in battle. Exploring a frontier world shrouded in danger Duncan the exiled chief of his near-extinct Scottish clan finds that sometimes justice cannot be reached unless the cultures and spirits of those involved are resolved.<br><br>“Having already won an Edgar for his <i>Inspector Shan</i> series Pattison makes a strong bid for another with this outstanding” first novel in his acclaimed <i>Bone Rattler</i> series. —Publishers Weekly starred review