Such was the acclaim that greeted Nick Stone's amazing debut novel, Mr Clarinet, that a curious syndrome soon developed: if you hadn't
 read the novel (and claimed to have any interest in the crime genre), you had to say (to all who would listen) 'I really must read Mr 
Clarinet -- I've heard so much about it!' (preferably said with a pronounced guilty note in the voice). Such people, of course, should do 
themselves a favour and actually read the book - the sprawling, ambitious Haiti-set phantasmagoria broke new ground in several provocative 
ways for the crime field. It also introduced troubled detective Max Mingus - a vividly drawn protagonist -- and now here's King of Swords,
 not so much a sequel to the debut novel, as a prequel with Max Mingus in his first terrifying encounter with his sinister nemesis Solomon Boukman.
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