Black Leopard, Red Wolf Audiobook (Free)
- Dion Graham
- Penguin Audio
- 2019-02-05
Summary:
FINALIST FOR THE 2019 Country wide BOOK AWARD
The New York Times Bestseller
Called a Best Book of 2019 by The Wall Road Journal and The Washington Post
‘A fantasy globe as well-realized as anything Tolkien made.’ –Neil Gaiman
‘Gripping, action-packed….The literary equivalent of a Marvel Comics world.’ –Michiko Kakutani, THE BRAND NEW York Times
The epic novel, an African Game of Thrones, from the Man Booker Prize-winning writer of A Brief History of Seven Killings
In the about Black Leopard, Red Wolf amazing first book in Marlon James’s Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history come together to explore what happens when a mercenary is hired to discover a missing child. The perfect holiday gift for your book club friends.
Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: ‘He includes a nose,’ people tell you. Engaged to locate a mysterious youngster who disappeared 3 years previous, Tracker breaks his own rule of usually working alone when he discovers himself portion of an organization that all fits in place to find the young man. The band is a hodgepodge, full of unusual personas with secrets of their very own, including a shape-shifting man-animal known as Leopard.
Seeing that Tracker follows the boy’s scent–from one ancient city to some other; into dense forests and across deep rivers–he and the music group are arranged upon by creatures purpose on destroying them. As he struggles to survive, Tracker begins to wonder: Who, really, is this young man? Why has he been lacking for such a long time? Why do more and more people desire to keep Tracker from locating him? And perhaps the main questions of all: Who’s telling the truth, and who is lying?
Drawing from African history and mythology and his have rich imagination, Marlon James has created a book unlike anything that’s come prior to it: a saga of breathtaking experience that’s also an ambitious, including examine. Defying categorization and filled with unforgettable characters, Dark Leopard, Red Wolf is certainly both astonishing and profound as it explores the basics of truth, the limitations of power, and our have to understand them both.