Full name: White Man's Grave: A Novel

Author: Richard Dooling Year: 1994 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780312132149 031213214X

When Peace Corps volunteer Michael Killigan goes missing in West Africa, his father Randall and his best friend Boone Westfall begin separate quests to find him. Randall, a bankruptcy lawyer, is the warlord of his world, a shark in a fishbowl, exercising power with mad, relentless, hilarious glee; Boone, an American innocent abroad, journeys to the African bush, protected by the twin charms of the passport and the almighty dollar. In seeking Michael, both men find much more than they bargain for. A satire, steeped in irony, chronicles the misadventures of Boone Westfall, who wanders through West Africa encountering witches, angry ancestors, and bad medicine in search of his missing friend Michael Killigan, whose high-powered banker father is conducting his own search. Similar books: Brain Storm by Richard Dooling Saffron Skies by Lesley Lokko The Sky and the Forest by C. S. Forester The Tribe That Lost Its Head by Nicholas Monsarrat Whiteman by Tony D'Souza Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd Rules of the Wild by Francesca Marciano The honey badger by Robert Ruark The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo by Peter Orner The Laughing Monsters by Denis Johnson Mortals by Norman Rush Acts of Faith by Philip Caputo Mister Johnson by Joyce Cary A Change of Climate by Hilary Mantel In the Blue Light of African Dreams by Paul Watkins Game Control by Lionel Shriver Take Me With You by Catherine Ryan Hyde Empire Falls by Richard Russo Anne of Windy Poplars by Lucy Maud Montgomery The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes