Goma

Heart of Darkness meets Marlon James’s Black Leopard, Red Wolf and Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Gods of Jade and Shadow in this exhilarating historical fantasy debut about what happens when the forces of progress slam against the forces of nature, and the unseen hand that moves us decides the fate of a cursed East African railroad.

February 1898. The sanguine Lt. Col. Patterson sails to Mombasa with a mission straight from London: to build a railway bridge at Tsavo, one hundred miles inland. It is...