Marlon James
Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United StatesBlack Leopard, Red Wolf (Riverhead) is the epic new novel, an African Game of Thrones, from Marlon James, the Man Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings. In the stunning first book in 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. Full of unforgettable characters, Black Leopard, Red Wolf is both surprising and profound as it explores the fundamentals of truth, the limits of power, and our need to understand them both.