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    The Big Killing

    By Robert Wilson

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJul 8, 2010
    ISBN9780007379675
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    The Big Killing
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    Robert Wilson

    Robert Wilson was born in 1957. A graduate of Oxford University, he has worked in shipping, advertising and trading in Africa. He has travelled in Asia and Africa and has lived in Greece and West Africa. He is married and writes from an isolated farmhouse in Portugal.

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    • 4/5
      A sometimes complex hardboiled mystery involving diamond trading, greed and murder, tinged with politics; set mainly in the Ivory Coast. There are also some great one-liners. The voice of Bruce Medway's (the narrator) dying father, sounds like "a radio on the other side of a windy railway track." An alley smells like it has "been dabbed with tincture of billy-goat sweat." Medway describes his health: "I was at the age when the extra pounds got belligerent, the heart started to want some time off and might take it without asking."The fragility and richness of life in Africa is on almost every page and makes for a different and readable story.