Instruments of Darkness

This debut thriller by the award-winning author of A Small Death in Lisbonis "a witty, fast-moving and picaresque tale" set in West Africa (Nelson DeMille).

A British expat, Bruce Medway gets by as a fixer and troubleshooter in the West African country of Benin. He's been in tough spots before, but never faced anything life-threatening until he did business with the mighty Madame Severnou. While she's dangerously unhappy with him, it's just as well that his next job will involve a good amount of travel. A Syrian millionaire wants Medway to track down a fellow expat, Steve Kershaw, whose gone missing.

Against a backdrop of political disruption and official corruption, Medway pursues the elusive phantom of Kershaw-and soon finds himself in the middle of an international conspiracy even deadlier than Madame Severnou.Drawing on his time living and working in West Africa, Gold Dagger Award-winning author Robert Wilson evokes the landscape, politics, and people of the region in this tense and atmospheric thriller.