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Making Wolf by Tade Thompson
Jun. 2nd, 2021 11:48 pmThe Blurb On The Back:
Meet Weston Kogi, a London supermarket store detective. He returns 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 exaggeration, until he wakes up in hell.
He is kidnapped and forced by two separate rebel factions to investigate the murder of a local political 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.
You can buy MAKING WOLF by Tape Thompson from Amazon UK, Waterstone’s or Bookshop.org UK. I earn commission on any purchases made through these links.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Tade Thompson’s hard-boiled noir makes excellent use of its fictional West African setting to send its main character on a nightmarish investigation beset by violence and corruption. However, the mystery plot doesn’t quite hang together, I needed more of Weston’s London life to flesh out how Alcacia is changing him and the female characters are noticeably under-developed for femme fatales. Saying that though, I would definitely read a sequel.
Meet Weston Kogi, a London supermarket store detective. He returns 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 exaggeration, until he wakes up in hell.
He is kidnapped and forced by two separate rebel factions to investigate the murder of a local political 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.
You can buy MAKING WOLF by Tape Thompson from Amazon UK, Waterstone’s or Bookshop.org UK. I earn commission on any purchases made through these links.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Tade Thompson’s hard-boiled noir makes excellent use of its fictional West African setting to send its main character on a nightmarish investigation beset by violence and corruption. However, the mystery plot doesn’t quite hang together, I needed more of Weston’s London life to flesh out how Alcacia is changing him and the female characters are noticeably under-developed for femme fatales. Saying that though, I would definitely read a sequel.
