num_pages: 640
description: In the 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.Drawing from African history and mythology and his own rich imagination Marlon James has written an adventure that's also an ambitious involving read. Defying categorization and full of unforgettable characters Black Leopard Red Wolf explores the fundamentals of truths the limits of power the excesses of ambition and our need to understand them all.
language: English
title: Black Leopard, Red Wolf
publisher: Riverhead Books