Black Leopard Red Wolf

<b>FINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD<br></b> <br><b>The <i>New York Times</i> Bestseller </b> <br><br><b>Named a Best Book of 2019 by <i>The Wall Street Journal, TIME, NPR, GQ, Vogue, </i>and <i>The Washington Post</i><br></b> <br> <b>"A fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made." --Neil Gaiman</b> <br><br><b>"Gripping, action-packed....The literary equivalent of a Marvel Comics universe." --Michiko Kakutani, <i>The New York Times</i></b> <b><br></b> <br><b>The epic novel, an African <i>Game of Thrones</i>, from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of <i>A Brief History of Seven Killings</i></b> <br><br><b>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. The perfect holiday gift for your book club friends.</b><br><br>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. <br><br>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 to survive, Tracker starts to wonder: Who, really, is this boy? Why has he been missing for so long? Why do so many people want to keep Tracker from finding him? And perhaps the most important questions of all: Who is telling the truth, and who is lying? <br><br>Drawing from African history and mythology and his own rich imagination, Marlon James has written a novel unlike anything that''s come before it: a saga of breathtaking adventure that''s also an ambitious, involving read. Defying categorization and full of unforgettable characters, <i>Black Leopard, Red Wolf</i> is both surprising and profound as it explores the fundamentals of truth, the limits of power, and our need to understand them both.