Bruce Medway is the target of a deadly conspiracy in "this darkly tangled thriller" by the CWA Gold Dagger Award–winning author of
A Small Death in Lisbon (
Kirkus Reviews).
As a fixer, Bruce Medway makes his living doing things other people don't want to do. And in the seedier corners of West Africa, there are plenty of tasks that need doing. For example, porn producer Fat Paul needs someone to deliver a video to the Ivory Coast, but the recipients will only trust a white man to make a drop. A Syrian millionaire wants Bruce to travel to Korhogo to fire someone on his payroll. And Martin Fall, head of security at a firm back home in England, needs a man to keep an eye on diamond hunter Ronald Collins.
Seems like three easy gigs for Bruce until two of his clients end up dead and the third goes missing. All three cases are dangerously tied to a group of Liberian rebels determined to wreak havoc wherever they go. Now, Bruce needs to outwit a band of killers all gunning for him before he becomes part of their swiftly rising body count.
"The action is furious and the one-liners . . . would have made even Raymond Chandler jealous." —
The Sunday Times
"Wilson writes concisely but poetically about a callously brutal side of African life that . . . ring[s] with a dark, sad credibility." —
Publishers Weekly, starred review

- 336 pages
- English
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The Big Killing
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Topic
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Literatura generalTable of contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Author’s Note
- Acknowledgment
- Epigraph
- Map of West Africa
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
- Chapter 18
- Chapter 19
- Chapter 20
- Chapter 21
- Chapter 22
- Chapter 23
- Chapter 24
- Chapter 25
- Chapter 26
- Chapter 27
- Chapter 28
- Chapter 29
- Chapter 30
- Chapter 31
- Chapter 32
- Chapter 33
- Read More from Robert Wilson
- About the Author
- Connect with HMH
- Footnotes
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