Black Leopard, Red Wolf

Description:

Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: "He has a nose," people say. Engaged to track down a mysterious boy who disappeared three years earlier, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself part of a group that comes together to search for the boy. The band is a hodgepodge, full of unusual characters with secrets of their own, including a shape-shifting man-animal known as Leopard. As Tracker follows the boy's scent--from one ancient city to another; into dense forests and across deep rivers--he and the band are set upon by creatures intent on destroying them. As he struggles to survive, Tracker starts to wonder: Who, really, is this boy? Why has he been missing for so long? Why do so many people want to keep Tracker from finding him? And perhaps the most important questions of all: Who is telling the truth, and who is lying?

subjects: Adaptations,  Hunters,  Quests (Expeditions),  Truthfulness and falsehood,  Adventure fiction,  Historical,  African American,  Epic,  Missing children,  Shapeshifting,  Mercenary soldiers,  Fiction,  Fantasy,  Folklore,  Secrecy,  Tracking and trailing,  English literature,  Fiction, fantasy, epic,  nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-fiction=2019-02-24,  New York Times bestseller,  New York Times reviewed,  Mercenary troops,  Historical fiction,  Shapeshifters fiction,  African American fiction