Carrie wrote:
>This seems to be the first book he's
> had published in the States but I see that he has
some British
publications
> of crime novels set in Africa with some intriguing
titles: A Darkening
> Stain, Blood Is Dirt
> The Big Killing, and Instruments Of Darkness - all
of which are available
> pretty cheap on the UK amazon. so i guess i'm
basically curious if
> anybody's read the books, how they rate, and where
Wilson fits in terms of
> genre.
I've read three of the four you've mentioned (haven't read
Blood Is Dirt yet). They're all brilliant and terrifying.
Bruce Medway, (a "PI" who isn't), is described as a 'fixer'
for traders. The books are all set in West Africa, where
corruption, poverty, disease and death are never far away.
The plots are as dark as any in the canon, including
Vachss.
I was very disappointed when Wilson veered off in a more
literary direction with his later novels. Still, it's worked
for him. He was practically unheard of before _A Small Death
In Lisbon_. Now he's on the UK bestseller lists and published
in the States. Can't argue with that.
Al Guthrie
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