Instruments of Darkness - Softcover

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Robert Wilson spent several years in West Africa and draws on this experience in his novels. He and his wife now live in Portugal.

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Benin, West Africa. Englishman Bruce Medway operates as a ‘fixer’ for traders along the part of the coast they used to call the White Man's Grave. It's a tough existence, but Medway can handle it…until he comes across the formidable Madame Severnou. Warned off further involvement by his client, Jack Obuasi, his energies are redirected into the search for missing expat, Steven Kershaw.

Kershaw, though, is a man of mystery: trader, artist, womaniser…and sado-masochist. Against background rumblings of political disturbance, in the face of endemic official corruption, egged on by an enigmatic policeman, Medway pursues his elusive quarry with a doggedness even he cannot explain. But as Medway soon learns, nothing in Africa is what it seems, and those who seek the truth find out more that they wish to know…

“Robert Wilson is a class act”
John Dugdale, 'Sunday Times'

“An atmospheric and absorbing debut”
Val McDermid