Black Leopard, Red Wolf – Marlon James

Mae Tracker yn heliwr, sy’n cael ei adnabod drwy’r tair ar ddeg o deyrnasoedd fel un sydd â thrwyn – ac mae bob amser yn gweithio ar ei ben ei hun. Ond mae’n torri ei reol ei hun pan fydd yn gweithio fel rhan o grŵp o helwyr ar ôl cael ei gyflogi i ddod o hyd i blentyn coll. Ond pwy sy’n dweud y gwir a phwy sy’n dweud celwydd?

‘The child is dead. There is nothing left to know.’

Tracker is a hunter, known throughout the thirteen kingdoms as one who has a nose – and he always works alone. But he breaks his own rule when, hired to find a lost child, he finds himself part of a group of hunters all searching for the same boy. Each of these companions is stranger and more dangerous than the last, from a giant to a witch to a shape-shifting Leopard, and each has secrets of their own.

As the mismatched gang follow the boy’s scent from perfumed citadels to infested rivers to the enchanted darklands and beyond, set upon at every turn by creatures intent on destroying them, Tracker starts to wonder: who really is this mysterious boy? Why do so many people want to stop him being found? And, most important of all, who is telling the truth and who is lying?

Marlon James weaves a tapestry of breathtaking adventure through a world at once ancient and startlingly modern. And, against this exhilarating backdrop of magic and violence, he explores the fundamentals of truth, the limits of power, the excesses of ambition, and our need to understand them all.