描述
Making Wolf
''Shocking and perceptive'' Guardian
''It was easy to stay up well past lights out to read just one more chapter - and then one more. '' James Oswald
''Engaging'' Sunday Times
LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER
Meet Weston Kogi a London supermarket store detective. He returns home to his West African home country for his aunt''s funeral. He sees his family his ex-girlfriend Nana his old school mate Church. Food is good beer is plentiful and telling people he works as a homicide detective seems like harmless hyperbole until he wakes up in hell.
He is kidnapped and forced by two separate rebel factions to investigate the murder of a local hero Papa Busi. The solution may tip a country on the brink into civil war.
Making Wolf is the outrageous frightening violent and sometimes surreal homecoming experience of a lifetime.
Praise for Tade Thompson:
''Breathtaking landscapes and intoxicating food and drink. endemic corruption sultry sexuality and casual slapdash violence. A rock-and-roll edge'' The Financial Times
''Brutal uncompromising and thought-provoking. superb'' M. W. Craven
''A magnificent tour de force'' Adrian Tchaikovsky
''Smart. Gripping. Fabulous
'' Ann Leckie
''Mesmerising'' M. R. Carey
. Language: English
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Fruugo ID:
450879642-950590113
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ISBN:
9781472131201