Overview

Lepan's Shadow, an international mystery that spans decades and continents, triggered by a death in Chile's Atacama Desert. Cliff West, a retired professor from New Zealand, hauls the body of renowned anthropologist Antoine Lepan from a steam-shrouded hot pool in Chile's Atacama Desert. A young boy is blamed for Lepan's death. To absolve the boy, Cliff must discover how the Frenchman met his fate on their pre-conference tour. If he can do this, Cliff believes it will ease the work-induced burden he carries for an earlier tragedy in his own family. ""Our professions aren't that different,"" Cliff tells the detective investigating Lepan's death. ""Ask the right questions, analyse the data, interpret your findings, draw your conclusions.""  Long haunted by the cost of his own outwardly successful career, Cliff focuses on the impacts of academic ambition and deceit. As the truth about Lepan unfolds, people and events from the past intersect with present-day conflicts and danger in the Atacama. How far does Lepan's shadow reach? Who pays the price of academic ambition?

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  ""Fascinating insights into academic misdeeds, believable characters and action, an exciting plot and unexpected twist. A really good read, set in an area few know much about."" Richard Butler, Emeritus Professor, Strathclyde Business School. ""Beautifully crafted. whodunnit with a realistic setting. I loved how it takes you on a journey to Chile, but mostly how it depicts, with humour and a touch of irony, the lives of a class of academics that is bordering on extinction. Can't wait for the narrator's next adventure."" Carolina Miranda, co-editor of The Foreign in International Crime Fiction. Transcultural Representations.

Author Information

Douglas Pearce is an emeritus professor of tourism management at Victoria University of Wellington. His teaching, research and consulting projects have taken him to Europe, Asia, South America and the South Pacific. He has written numerous academic papers and five scholarly books on tourism. His books have been translated into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Japanese. Lepan's Shadow is his debut novel. Douglas lives in Wellington with his wife Chantal.

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