A Brief History of Seven Killings

Summary

Spanning decades and continents, the novel revolves around the 1976 attempt on Bob Marley's life and the gangland, political, and CIA forces that converged on Kingston. James gives voice to a chorus of gunmen, journalists, ghosts, and lovers in pulsing Jamaican patois and street English. The book's polyphonic sweep turns a single night into a portrait of an entire era's violence.