Instruments of Darkness - Hardcover

Wilson, Robert

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ISBN 10: 0002325217 ISBN 13: 9780002325219

Publisher: Collins Crime, 1995

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Bruce Medway operates as a "fixer" for African and expatriate traders operating out of Benin. It is not life-threatening, until he crosses Madame Severou over a deal to smuggle rice into Nigeria. His client warns him off further involvement and instead asks him to locate a missing employee.

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‘Unmissable... Unflinchingly imagined and executed. No hint of competition’
Literary Review

‘A class act’
Sunday Times

‘An atmospheric and absorbing debut, Instruments of Darkness vividly paints a credible picture of a world I know almost nothing about. Now I feel I’ve been there’
Val McDermid

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Benin, West Africa. Englishman Bruce Medway operates as a ‘fixer’ for traders along the part of the coast they used to call the White Man's Grave. It's a tough existence, but Medway can handle it...until he comes across the formidable Madame Severnou. Warned off further involvement by his client, Jack Obuasi, his energies are redirected into the search for missing expat, Steven Kershaw.

Kershaw, though, is a man of mystery: trader, artist, womaniser...and sado-masochist. Against background rumblings of political disturbance, in the face of endemic official corruption, egged on by an enigmatic policeman, Medway pursues his elusive quarry with a doggedness even he cannot explain. But as Medway soon learns, nothing in Africa is what it seems, and those who seek the truth find out more that they wish to know...

“Robert Wilson is a class act”
John Dugdale, 'Sunday Times'

“An atmospheric and absorbing debut”
Val McDermid

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