{"product_id":"9780385690348","title":"Black Leopard, Red Wolf","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER · \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER · One of \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e’s 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time · Winner of the \u003ci\u003eL.A. Times\u003c\/i\u003e Ray Bradbury Prize · Finalist for the National Book Award · Named a Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal, TIME, The Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e, CBC, NPR\u003ci\u003e, GQ, Vogue, The Washington Post \u003c\/i\u003eand more\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Gripping, action-packed. . . . The literary equivalent of a Marvel Comics universe.\" \u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eMichiko Kakutani, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this epic, internationally bestselling novel from Marlon James, the Man Booker Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eA Brief History of Seven Killings\u003c\/i\u003e, myth, fantasy and history merge in the stunning story of a mercenary's quest to find a missing child. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: \"He has a nose,\" people say. Hired to find a mysterious boy who has disappeared, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself part of a group assembled 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 the Leopard. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Tracker follows the boy's scent, he and the band are set upon by creatures intent on destroying them. As he fights for survival, 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 the boy from being found? And perhaps most important of all: Who is telling the truth, and who is lying?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing from African history and mythology and his own rich imagination, Marlon James has written a saga of breathtaking adventure that's also an ambitious, involving read. Defying categorization and full of unforgettable characters, \u003ci\u003eBlack Leopard, Red Wolf \u003c\/i\u003eis both surprising and profound as it explores the fundamentals of truth, the limits of power, the excesses of ambition, and our need to understand them all.","brand":"Marlon James","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":47988917534978,"sku":"9780385690348","price":24.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0747\/0012\/8514\/files\/BNCImageAPI_0bd96894-b411-4905-865a-a183f1a52e1e.jpg?v=1781384386","url":"https:\/\/www.downtowncomics.ca\/products\/9780385690348","provider":"Downtown Comics","version":"1.0","type":"link"}