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Making Wolf

By: Tade Thompson
Narrated by: Clifford Samuel
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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.

©2020 Tade Thompson (P)2020 Hachette Audio UK

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"It was easy to stay up well past lights out to [listen to] just one more chapter - and then one more...." (James Oswald) 

"Shocking and perceptive." (Guardian)

"Engaging." (Sunday Times)

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Great insight into West Africa

After reading this story, some insight was gained into the hard life that occurs in war-torn nation's that regularly deal with revolutionary fractions.

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A Pleasure When an Artist Does Not Repeat Himself

Anxiously awaited "Making Wolf" by Tade Thompson, set in a fictional West African country, and with read with  cool and soothing calmness; makes you think, wonder, and engages both intellectually and emotionally.

Coming at the heels of the highly acclaimed  "Rosewater Trilogy" - science fiction set in futuristic Nigeria, "Making Wolf" is different. The plot is deceptively simple - the investigation of the assassination of a popular leader.  Motivations are maddeningly complex. Characters are eccentric and intelligent. What remains is the question: will they ever get it right? 

I would never want to rush genius but I am waiting for Tade Thompson's next book.
PS. Only wished Clifford Samuel would have pronounced "Tade" correctly.

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