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By Marlon James, Ryan Anderson, Dwight Bacquie, Cherise Boothe, Robertson Dean, Johnathan McClain, Robert Younis, Various Narrators
Assassins, Assassination attempts, Reggae musicians, Fiction
"From the acclaimed writer of The Book of Night Women comes a masterful novel framed as a fictional oral history that explores the events and characters surrounding the attempted assassination of Bob Marley during the political turmoil on Jamaica in the late 1970s"--
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Epic, bleak, meticulous and open-ended.
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James’s impressive third novel sets the attempted assassination of Bob Marley against the cacophony and violence of Jamaica as the CIA moved in
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On Open Library, 10 have read it and 47 want to.
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