FINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

The New York Times Bestseller

Named a Best Book of 2019 by The Wall Road Journal as well as the Washington Post

‘A fantasy globe as well-realized as anything Tolkien produced.’ –Neil Gaiman

‘Gripping, action-packed….The literary exact carbon copy of a Marvel Comics universe.’ –Michiko Kakutani, THE BRAND NEW York Times

The epic novel, an African Game of Thrones, from the person Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings

In the about Black Leopard, Red Wolf amazing first novel in Marlon James’s Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history get together to explore what happens whenever a mercenary is hired to discover a missing child. The perfect holiday present for your book club friends.

Tracker is known all over for his abilities being a hunter: ‘He has a nasal area,’ people tell you. Engaged to locate a mysterious son who disappeared three years earlier, Tracker breaks his personal rule of constantly working only when he discovers himself component of a group that comes together to find the boy. The band is definitely a hodgepodge, filled with unusual individuals with secrets of their own, including a shape-shifting man-animal referred to as Leopard.

As Tracker follows the boy’s scent–from one ancient city to some other; into dense forests and across deep rivers–he and the band are established upon by creatures intent on destroying them. As he challenges to survive, Tracker starts to wonder: Who, actually, is this youngster? Why provides he been lacking for such a long time? Why do so many people wish to maintain Tracker from finding him? And perhaps the most important questions of all: Who is telling the reality, and who’s lying?

Sketching from African background and mythology and his own rich imagination, Marlon Wayne has written a novel unlike anything that’s come prior to it: a saga of breathtaking experience that’s also an ambitious, involving browse. Defying categorization and full of unforgettable characters, Black Leopard, Red Wolf can be both surprising and profound since it explores the basics of truth, the limits of power, and our have to understand them both.