Witty, compelling and boasting a brilliantly likeable protagonist, Thompson's tale of a London store detective who finds himself in deadly peril after claiming to his West African family that he is a homicide detective is unputdownable reading from first page to last.
Longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger 2021
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.
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 9781472131201
Number of pages: 272
Weight: 180 g
Dimensions: 198 x 126 x 20 mm
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
My thanks to Little, Brown Book Group - Constable for an eARC via NetGalley of ‘Making Wolf’ by Tade Thompson in exchange for an honest review. It was Thompson’s first novel and originally published in the USA in 2015... More
Weston Kogi fled Alcacia in West Africa 15 years ago. His Aunt Blossom helped him get on the last flight out after the country fell into rioting and civil disorder following the mysterious death of the leaders of the... More
I'm grateful to the publisher for an advance copy of Making Wolf to consider for review.
If you have read Thompson's Rosewater trilogy you'll know that he should be seriously rated as a fiction writer...
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