A Darkening Stain - (Bruce Medway Mysteries) by Robert Wilson (Paperback)

About the Book

When "troubleshooter" Bruce Medway reluctantly takes a job with a mafia capo in West Africa, he tries in vain to remain detached as he discovers that gold, greed, and the mysterious disappearances of schoolgirls are all interconnected.

Book Synopsis

When schoolgirls begin to disappear on the West African coast, "troubleshooter" Bruce Medway tries to remain detached. Meanwhile, he reluctantly acquires a new job from former nemesis and mafia capo Franconelli. Franconelli gives Bruce forty-eight hours to find a French trader, Mariner, whom not even the mafia has been able to track. Yet as Bruce sets out on his assignment, he is unable to remain disconnected from the mysterious schoolgirl disappearances, and finds that girls, gold, and greed are all interconnected; corruption abounds everywhere. There are no safe havens for Bruce in this situation, and he must devise a scam that risks everything in order to stay alive.

A brilliant follow-up to Blood is Dirt, and the fourth novel in the Bruce Medway series, A Darkening Stain takes Bruce Medway into the darkest territory of West Africa yet.

A Harvest Original

From the Back Cover

The fourth in a series of critically acclaimed novels set in West Africa by the award-winning author of A SMALL DEATH IN LISBON

When schoolgirls begin to disappear on the West African coast, "troubleshooter" Bruce Medway tries to remain detached. Meanwhile, he reluctantly acquires a new job from former nemesis and mafia capo Franconelli. Yet as Bruce sets out on his assignment, he is unable to remain disconnected from the mysterious schoolgirl disappearances, and finds that girls, gold, and greed are all interconnected. Corruption abounds everywhere, and in order to save his own life, Bruce must devise a scam that risks everything.

Robert Wilson, a graduate of Oxford University, is the author of seven novels. He has worked in shipping, advertising, and trading in Africa, and has lived in Greece and West Africa. He currently lives in Portugal and Oxford, England.

Review Quotes

PRAISE FOR A DARKENING STAIN

"Robert Wilson dissects the dark heart of Africa with an insight and

compassion that makes it so sleazily vivid you'd pay money not to go

there."--VAL McDERMID, a u t h o r o f THE DISTANT ECHO

"Tightly plotted and tautly written ... Perfectly attuned to the violent

wavelength of this unpredictable world."

--THE SUNDAY TIMES (LONDON)