Instruments of Darkness

Instruments of Darkness
Robert Thomas Wilson

‘First in a field of one’ (Literary Review) Robert Wilson’s first novel, a tense and powerful thriller set in the sultry heat of West AfricaBenin, West Africa. Englishman Bruce Medway operates as a ‘fixer’ for traders along the part of the coast they used to call the White Man’s Grave. It’s a tough existence, but Medway can handle it… until he crosses the formidable Madame Severnou. Warned off by his client, Jack Obuasi, his energies are redirected into the search for missing expat Steven Kershaw. Kershaw, though, is a man of mystery: trader, artist, womanizer… and sado-masochist.Against background rumblings of political disturbance, in the face of official corruption, egged on by an enigmatic policeman, Medway pursues his elusive quarry across West Africa. Is Kershaw tied to Obuasi’s and Madame Severnou’s shady dealings? Is he a vicious murderer? Is he, indeed, alive or dead?

Instruments of Darkness

Robert Wilson

For Jane and in memory of my father

1922–1980

Table of Contents

Cover Page (#ued26865e-fee9-5fd3-b5a3-074541f9fb78)

Title Page (#u6d5df439-0271-56c8-bbae-34dbc0b53e64)

Dedication (#uc46306fa-2a1f-53c3-a380-4c0928505da7)

AUTHOR’S NOTE (#ua10a5269-9e09-590f-b805-cf0b6362b6cd)

Map (#u5bdeb644-3944-531f-82a1-a4a6cb9e42c0)

Prologue (#u287f5032-8400-52c5-b5f3-7adf0c9ffc35)

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Chapter 2 (#ubab112fc-c780-5371-8b56-273aafbdfce4)

Chapter 3 (#u2bb09c35-9e35-5547-8185-72ef53306e05)

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Chapter 9 (#ufb41ee49-8743-5425-a390-484632efdf83)

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Chapter 21 (#litres_trial_promo)

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Chapter 33 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 34 (#litres_trial_promo)

Robert Wilson (#litres_trial_promo)

Praise for Robert Wilson (#litres_trial_promo)

By the Same Author (#litres_trial_promo)