Makana (who uses only one name) is very much a noir hero, an updated version of Chandler's hardboiled loner, a man of honor…The complex and cynical actions of the agents of various security services suggest the dark world of spy fiction, from John le Carré's THE LOOKING GLASS WAR to the post–Cold War espionage novels of Mick Herron or David Ignatius.

The Los Angeles Review of Books for DARK WATER

A new best for this absorbing series, this fifth entry offers a must-read, street-level look at African politics; a compelling personal journey; and a top-rate mystery.

starred review, Booklist on CITY OF JACKALS

This excellent series . . . captures the climate of fear and rage that has come to define life in a perpetual war zone.

Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review on THE GHOST RUNNER

[Makana has become] one of crime fiction's most interesting and sympathetic detectives . . . [Bilal] gets better and better.

The Times on THE BURNING GATES

Makana is a compelling, even an archetypal, hero . . . [A] must-read series.

starred review, Booklist on THE BURNING GATES

Sharp, witty, politically astute thrillers . . . Makana's place as an exile on the margins of society . . . makes him the perfect 21st-century detective, capable of uncovering the many guises of power.

Al Jazeera America on THE GHOST RUNNER