![]() ![]() James and I spoke over coffee and tea (as he had been nursing a cold) at Oslo Coffee Roasters in Brooklyn. As part of this group of mercenaries, he provides a window into a world at once hallucinatory and terrifyingly real. A boy named Tracker is the book’s protagonist, gifted (or cursed) with the ability to find anything and anyone by simply inhaling their scent. ![]() The dramatis personae includes a necromancer, a shape-shifting leopard who is sometimes animal and sometimes man, bush fairies, a girl made entirely of smoke, a giant who hates being called a giant, a very smart buffalo, trolls from the Blood Swamp, a vampire lightning bird and, well, the list goes on. Phantasm is the order of the day or, rather, the night. ![]() The fantasy takes place in Iron Age Africa seen through a mirror darkly. ![]()
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