Book description
An evocative and atmospheric thriller set along the part of the African
coast they used to call the White Man's Grave, The Big Killing is the
second novel to feature Bruce Medway
Bruce Medway, go-between and fixer for traders in steamy West Africa,
smells trouble when he's approached by a porn merchant to deliver a
video to a secret location. And just to add to his problems, BB,
Medway's rich Syrian patron, hires him to act as minder to Ron Collins -
a spoilt playboy in Africa to buy diamonds - in the Ivory Coast.
All this could be the answer to his cashflow crisis, but when the video
delivery leads to a shootout and the discovery of a mutilated body,
Medway is more inclined to retreat to his bolthole in Benin - especially
as the manner of the victim's death is too similar to a current
notorious political murder for comfort.
His obligations, though, keep him fixed in the Ivory Coast and he is
soon caught up in a terrifying cycle of violence. But does it stem from
the political upheavals in nearby Liberia, or from the cutthroat
business of the diamonds? Unless Medway can get to the bottom of the
mystery, he knows that for the savage killer out there in the African
night, he is the next target… 'If I come across as original and
blackly funny a thriller again this year, I'll feel myself double blest'
Irish Times
'A class act' Sunday Times
'First in a field of one' Literary Review Robert Wilson spent several
years in West Africa and draws on this experience for his Bruce Medway
novels. He and his wife now live in Portugal.
