Blood Is Dirt (Bruce Medway) [Import] [Hardcover]

Robert Wilson (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Collins Crime (March 20, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0002326256
• ISBN-13: 978-0002326254
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,511,135 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

ROBERT WILSON is the author of nine previous novels, including A Small Death in Lisbon and The Company of Strangers. A graduate of Oxford University, he has worked in shipping, advertising, and trading in Africa, and has lived in Greece and West Africa.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Why did it take me so long to discover Robert WIlson?, September 24, 2006

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D. West "Bones" (Boise, Idaho United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blood Is Dirt (Bruce Medway Mysteries, No. 3) (Paperback)

My first taste of Wilson's writing was A Small Death in Lisbon! WOW!! Powerful but brutal. Since then, I've been reading everything I can get my hands on by this author.

Wilson draws on Africa for this tale and it is tautly written with complex characters. I can never see around the next corner, I am constantly amazed as Wilson pulls rabbit after rabbit out of the hat.

What I like about Wilson is that even when he's being brutal, he never forgets to be funny as well. Some of the better one liners I've read have come from his novels.

Always brutal, his characters flawed as we would expect, plots in keeping with today's drama, Wilson's novels are way ahead of the formulaic mystery writers in America. Though I ususally pass my books on to others, Wilson is one author I hate to part with.

Looking forward to the next novel.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If Chandler Lived in West Africa, July 6, 2004

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Otto Zappatore "Finderman" (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blood Is Dirt (Bruce Medway Mysteries, No. 3) (Paperback)

If Raymond Chandler was an acerbic Brit living in Benin, well, okay, he wouldn't be Raymond Chandler, but Robert Wilson is a latter day Chandler, who describes the complexities of African corruption, gives us the flavor of heat and violence, and presents an expat private eye (Bruce Medway) who is smart, funny and about the only dry thing in West Africa.

This novel is interesting, smart about Africa, especially Nigeria, Benin, corporate fraud and political corruption. It's also funny and moves along at a good clip. Wilson is deft with characterization and complexity, and the writing is so evocative you'll feel by turns drunk, hot or terrified as you read.

A great example of what detective fiction should be: smart, original, funny and interesting.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars africa!, February 20, 2005

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Lacy Hazard "Thrill seeker" (San Francisco) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blood Is Dirt (Bruce Medway Mysteries, No. 3) (Paperback)

Like Robinson's, The Sapphire Sea, this well written novel takes us into the steamy alleys of Africa through the eyes of an outsider who knows the inside track. You may not like what you see, but you can't stop turning the pages. Good stuff.