Black Leopard, Red Wolf

✍ Scribed by James, Marlon

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group; Riverhead Books
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 546 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York
• ISBN: 0525526854

✦ Synopsis

The epic novel from Marlon James, the Man Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings : an African Game of Thrones.
In the stunning first novel in Marlon James's Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history come together to explore what happens when a mercenary is hired to find a missing child.
Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: "He has a nose," people say. Engaged to track down a mysterious boy who disappeared three years earlier, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself part of a group that comes together to search for the boy. The band is a hodgepodge, full of unusual characters with secrets of their own, including a shape-shifting man-animal known as Leopard.
As Tracker follows the boy's scent--from one ancient city to another; into dense forests and across deep rivers--he and the band are set upon by creatures intent on destroying them. As he struggles...

✦ Subjects

FICTION -- Fantasy -- Epic