One of TIME s 100 Best Fantasy Books of All TimeWinner of the L.A. Times Ray Bradbury Prize
Finalist for the 2019 National Book Award The New York Times Bestseller Named a Best Book of
2019 by The Wall Street Journal TIME NPR GQ Vogue and The Washington Post A fantasy world
as well-realized as anything Tolkien made. --Neil Gaiman Gripping action-packed....The
literary equivalent of a Marvel Comics universe. --Michiko Kakutani The New York Times The
epic novel from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings 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. 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. 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? 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 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.
