Drawing on the legends and traditions of the African continent, as well as his own rich imagination, Marlon James, author of the Booker Prize–winning A Brief History of Seven Killings, crafts a breathtaking epic narrative in the tradition of J. R. R. Tolkien, Angela Carter, and Gene Wolfe.
Tracker, a hunter renowned throughout the Thirteen Kingdoms for his extraordinary sense of smell, is able to find anything lost or missing using this unique ability — and he always works alone. The only exception comes when he is hired to find a missing child.
Joined by a strange band of hunters — from a giant to a witch and a leopard who can transform into a man — he follows the boy’s scent through enchanted and shadowy lands, across dangerous lakes, rivers, and forests, facing countless obstacles along the way, until he begins to wonder: who is this mysterious boy, really? Why are so many people trying to prevent him from finding him? Where does truth end and lies begin?
Against a backdrop of magic and unspeakable violence, Marlon James constructs his own Game of Thrones, exploring fundamental truths about strength and power, ambition, instinct and reason, good and evil.
