- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; New Ed edition (1 Jun 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0006499759
- ISBN-13: 978-0006499756
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 13.5 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 689,383 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Praise for Blood is Dirt:
‘Robert Wilson is a class act… For once, a novelist influenced by Raymond Chandler is not shown up by the comparison, matching his mentor’s descriptive flourish and screwball dialogue.’
Sunday Times
‘Atmosphere so saturated in sex and duplicity that you’re tempted to pause a while and wring it out. But the narrative goes at such a lick that you daren’t leave the vehicle. An engrossing read.’
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The third powerful and evocative novel in Robert Wilson’s acclaimed West African-set Bruce Medway series.
Bruce Medway, fixer and debt collector for anyone in a deeper hole than himself, has heard a few stories in his time. The one that Napier Briggs tells him is patchy, but it doesn’t exclude the vital fact that two million of his dollars have gone missing. Bruce is used to imperfect information – people get embarrassed at their own stupidity and criminality. But for the first time it leads to the gruesome and brutal death of a client.
It would all have ended there but for Napier’s daughter, the sexy, sassy and sussed Selina Aguia, a canny commodities broker. She brings money to the game and launches Bruce into a savage world where a power-hungry Nigerian presidential candidate, a rich blow-loving American and a mafia capo are fighting a silent war in which pawns are badly needed. Worse for Bruce, Selina wants revenge, and with the scam she invents she looks as if she’ll get it. This is a world where blood is dirt – nobody really cares. Not even if they love you.
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The sheep stood in the car park looking at its African owner with interest but no concern, which was a mistake. Read the first page
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
It is incredible that Robert Wilson can adapt his writing - his stories in Africa as so different from the wonderful Javier Falcon series. Good story line and just the book you need when sitting in an airport!!
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Why did it take me so long to discover Robert WIlson?
24 Sep 2006
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
My first taste of Wilson's writing was A Small Death in Lisbon! WOW!! Powerful but brutal. Since then, I've been reading everything I can get my hands on by this author.
Wilson draws on Africa for this tale and it is tautly written with complex characters. I can never see around the next corner, I am constantly amazed as Wilson pulls rabbit after rabbit out of the hat.
What I like about Wilson is that even when he's being brutal, he never forgets to be funny as well. Some of the better one liners I've read have come from his novels.
Always brutal, his characters flawed as we would expect, plots in keeping with today's drama, Wilson's novels are way ahead of the formulaic mystery writers in America. Though I ususally pass my books on to others, Wilson is one author I hate to part with.
Looking forward to the next novel.
Wilson draws on Africa for this tale and it is tautly written with complex characters. I can never see around the next corner, I am constantly amazed as Wilson pulls rabbit after rabbit out of the hat.
What I like about Wilson is that even when he's being brutal, he never forgets to be funny as well. Some of the better one liners I've read have come from his novels.
Always brutal, his characters flawed as we would expect, plots in keeping with today's drama, Wilson's novels are way ahead of the formulaic mystery writers in America. Though I ususally pass my books on to others, Wilson is one author I hate to part with.
Looking forward to the next novel.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
If Chandler Lived in West Africa
6 July 2004
Format:Paperback
If Raymond Chandler was an acerbic Brit living in Benin, well, okay, he wouldn't be Raymond Chandler, but Robert Wilson is a latter day Chandler, who describes the complexities of African corruption, gives us the flavor of heat and violence, and presents an expat private eye (Bruce Medway) who is smart, funny and about the only dry thing in West Africa.
This novel is interesting, smart about Africa, especially Nigeria, Benin, corporate fraud and political corruption. It's also funny and moves along at a good clip. Wilson is deft with characterization and complexity, and the writing is so evocative you'll feel by turns drunk, hot or terrified as you read.
A great example of what detective fiction should be: smart, original, funny and interesting.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
africa!
21 Feb 2005
Format:Paperback
Like Robinson's, The Sapphire Sea, this well written novel takes us into the steamy alleys of Africa through the eyes of an outsider who knows the inside track. You may not like what you see, but you can't stop turning the pages. Good stuff.
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