Tracker is hired to find a missing boy. The search takes him through a mythic Africa of shape-shifters, witches, and ancient cities. James writes fantasy the way he writes crime — dense, violent, poetic, and completely uncompromising. Called "the African Game of Thrones" but really it's something entirely new.
Explicit — sexual content including queer sexuality is central.
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Moods: Dense Mythic Violent Hallucinatory
Tropes: African Mythology Quest Shape-Shifting Unreliable Narrator
The prose is deliberately challenging — James's most ambitious work.
Draws from multiple African mythological traditions — scholarly research underpins it.
Book 2 (Moon Witch, Spider King) is out. Book 3 pending.