The Dark Star Trilogy 2 Books Collection Set by Marlon James - Fiction - Paperback

Titles in This Set
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Moon Witch, Spider King

Details
Condition: Brand New
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Age Range: Adult

Overview
The Dark Star Trilogy is Booker Prize winner Marlon James's genre-bending epic of African myth, history, and fantasy. This two-book collection gathers Black Leopard, Red Wolf and Moon Witch, Spider King, the first two volumes of a planned trilogy set in a richly imagined, pre-colonial Africa. Together they follow Tracker, hired to find a missing boy, and Sogolon, the Moon Witch who becomes his fiercest rival, as their stories collide across a landscape of witches, shapeshifters, and warring kingdoms. Brand new paperbacks, ready for your shelf.

About the Books
Black Leopard, Red Wolf opens the trilogy with Tracker, a hunter famed for his uncanny nose, hired to find a boy who vanished three years earlier. Rather than working alone as he prefers, Tracker joins a strange band of mercenaries, witches, and shapeshifters whose competing agendas complicate the search at every turn. Told in Tracker's own winding, oblique voice, the novel was a finalist for the National Book Award and named one of TIME's 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time. Moon Witch, Spider King then hands the narrative to Sogolon, the Moon Witch who clashed with Tracker in the first book. Spanning nearly two centuries of her extraordinary life, it traces how an outcast girl, hated by her brothers and shut away in a termite hill, grew into a formidable adversary of the Aesi, the king's chancellor, while offering her own account of the search for the missing boy. Reading the two books together reveals how thoroughly James reshapes a single story depending on who is telling it, turning the pair into a layered meditation on power, memory, and truth. Both novels draw on West African history and mythology to build a world that feels at once ancient and startlingly modern, populated by mercenaries, spirits, and shape-shifting creatures, rewarding readers who enjoy immersive, patiently unfolding fantasy.

Key Benefits

• Collects the first two Dark Star Trilogy novels in one set
• Brand new paperbacks, ready for readers or collectors
• Two narrators give interlocking, contrasting accounts of events
• Grounded in African history and mythology, not Eurocentric tropes
• Written by a Booker Prize-winning, boundary-pushing storyteller
• Great gift for fantasy fans, book clubs, or literary readers

Book-by-Book Guide
Black Leopard, Red Wolf — Tracker joins a motley band of mercenaries and shapeshifters to hunt for a boy who disappeared three years earlier.
Moon Witch, Spider King — Sogolon the Moon Witch tells her own 177-year story, recasting the events of the first novel from her perspective.

About the Author
Marlon James is a Jamaican novelist and the Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings. He graduated from the University of the West Indies and later earned a master's in creative writing from Wilkes University, with fiction appearing in Esquire, Granta, and The Caribbean Review of Books. With the Dark Star Trilogy, James built an African-rooted fantasy epic. Black Leopard, Red Wolf became a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist; Moon Witch, Spider King followed as an instant New York Times bestseller.

Why You'll Love This Set
Two sweeping, myth-soaked novels in one brand-new paperback bundle make this a standout gift for the fantasy reader in your life, whether for a birthday, the holiday season, or your own summer reading stack. Dual perspectives keep every page surprising from start to finish.

Please Note: This is the UK edition with the ISBN as listed; the cover may vary slightly from the image shown.