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Book Synopsis''Shocking and perceptive'' Guardian
''It was easy to stay up well past lights out to read just one more chapter - and then one more...'' James Oswald
''Engaging'' Sunday Times
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Meet Weston Kogi, a London supermarket store detective. He returns home to his West African home country for his aunt''s funeral. He sees his family, his ex-girlfriend Nana, his old school mate Church. Food is good, beer is plentiful, and telling people he works as a homicide detective seems like harmless hyperbole, until he wakes up in hell.
He is kidnapped and forced by two separate rebel factions to investigate the murder of a local hero, Papa Busi. The solution may tip a country on the brink into civil war.
Making Wolf is the outrageous, frightening, violent and sometimes surreal homecoming experience of a lifetime.
Trade Review
With a likable if flawed protagonist, a fast pace and plenty of twists, Making Wolf is both shocking and perceptive * Guardian *
Engaging . . . Thompson is a witty, versatile writer. A British-born psychiatrist, he uses his knowledge of his parents' Yoruba culture to brilliant effect in this unusual addition to the private-eye genre * The Sunday Times *
Satisfyingly complicated without ever feeling contrived... such skilled writing it was easy to stay up well past lights out to read just one more chapter - and then one more...
The fictional country of Alcacia is vividly, lovingly drawn with no blemishes spared: its "blinding retina-shattering sunlight", breathtaking landscapes and intoxicating food and drink. So too is the intensity of human relations: endemic corruption, sultry sexuality and casual, slapdash violence. Thompson . . . brings a rock-and-roll edge to the story * The Financial Times *
Brutal, uncompromising and thought-provoking, this is a superb book -- M. W. Craven
Alcacia may be fictional, but Thompson knows its land, culture and politics intimately, and brings a palpable sense of threat to this spare, engaging thriller * The Glasgow Herald *
