Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy #1)

by Marlon James

“I tell Amadu he need none of you. Any five or six warriors and a hound. You is the only one I need, but even you is a fool. Every single one of you a fool. Spend so much time growl, and scowl like hungry hyena, none of you have time to find your own shit, much less a boy. You want to know what Kongor is to me? Kongor is where man teach me him true use. And even the last thing he good for a candlestick do it better.” “Yet you help to find a boy who will be a man,” I said. “But you know what I do? You know what I do? I take the greatest revenge. I bury every single one of you. Every single one. I was at every deathbed. Every mishap. Every plague of bad spirits. Every death turn. And I laugh. And if the knife was only halfway in, I push it deeper. Or I travel in the air and infect your mind. And I still living. I bury you and your son and your son’s son. And will I live. I . . . I . . .” She stopped and looked around the cell as if it were the first time she was seeing it. “Wherever you just went to, maybe go back,” I said. “What a day wh—” “When a man tells you what to do. Don’t you have enough spirits in your head doing that already?” “We talking about you.” “You talking about everyone but me. Look at what all you do. Fellowship tear apart before it even come together in the valley. Three of you go off in the Darklands and one have to follow because you is man and man never listen. Delay we by one whole moon.” “So you sold us off.” “So I get you out of the way.” “And yet l...