Black Leopard, Red Wolf: Dark Star Trilogy Book 1

"The child is dead. There is nothing left to know...". Tracker is a hunter, known in the thirteen kingdoms as one who has a nose - and he always works alone. But he breaks this rule when he joins a band seeking a lost child. His companions are strange and dangerous, from a giant to a witch to a shape-shifting Leopard, and each hides their own secrets. As they follow the boy's scent, from perfumed citadels to infested rivers to enchanted darklands, set upon by murderous foes, Tracker wonders : who is this mysterious boy ? Why don't people want him found ? And, crucially, who is telling the truth and who is lying ? Marlon James was born in Jamaica in 1910. He was the first Jamaican to win the Man Booker Prize, for his bestselling novel A Brief History of Seven Killings. This novel also won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and the Minnesota Book Award and has been translated into twenty-one languages. Marlon James is also the author of two other novels, John Crow's Devil and The Book of Nigh