The boy’s captors are using the nineteen doors, magical portals, to traverse the North Kingdom. Tracker and a city prefect named Mossi learn that the boy is the son of Lissisolo, King Kwash Dara’s sister, and thus the true heir to the throne. The remaining group members survive a trip through the Darklands, a forest where time flows abnormally. The expedition falls apart almost immediately. In addition to Tracker, members of this expedition include Leopard Leopard’s bowman and lover Fumeli Nyka, a man who previously betrayed Tracker by selling him into slavery Nsaka, a mercenary and Nyka’s lover Sadogo, a giant Bunshi, a river spirit and Sogolon, the Moon Witch, a sorceress who is hunted by the spirits of those she has killed. His captors include an Ipundulu, a vampire who drains his victims and replaces their blood with lightning, as well as Sasabonsam, brother of Asambosam. He is now being held captive by a group of monsters.
Basu and his family were all killed, and the boy is the sole survivor. The boy was abducted from the home of Basu Fumanguru, an elder in the city of Kongor.
Years later, in the city of Malakal, Tracker is hired to find a mysterious boy. Tracker leaves the surviving mingi children with the Gangatom tribe and sets out on his own. She and most of the children are killed, but she is able to place a protective enchantment on Tracker before she dies. He and Leopard kill the creature and escape. On one mission to rescue children, Tracker is caught by a flesh-eating monster named Asanbosam. These children are cared for by the Sangoma, an anti-witch. They rescue mingi children, who are born with birth defects and/or strange powers. He meets a shapeshifter known as Leopard and a young Ku man named Kava, with whom Tracker begins a sexual relationship. As a young adult, he abandons his abusive grandfather and returns to the Ku tribe, home of his extended family. Once Tracker has identified someone’s scent, he can follow them anywhere. In a frame story, a man named Tracker recounts his tale to prison interrogators from the South Kingdom. The plot is narrated in flashbacks with non-chronological episodes. Jordan in February 2019 prior to release of the book. The rights to produce a film adaptation were purchased by Michael B. The novel draws on African history and mythology, blended into the landscape of the North Kingdom and the South Kingdom, and the political tensions between these two warring states, as well as various city-states and tribes in the surrounding landscape. It is the first book of the Dark Star Trilogy. Black Leopard, Red Wolf is a 2019 fantasy novel by Jamaican writer Marlon James.
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