 Penguin Random House Audio presents Black Leopard, Red Wolf, by Marlon James, Red for You, by Dion Graham, to Jeff, for Quarumoon, and a million other things, but one. A dog, a cat, a wolf, and a fox. The odory eno appano. Not everything the eye sees should be spoken by the mouth. One, the child is dead. There is nothing left to know. I hear there is a queen in the south who kills the man, who brings her bad nose. So when I give word of the boy's death, do I write my own death with it? Truth eats lies, just as a crocodile eats the moon. And yet my witness is the same today as it will be tomorrow. No, I did not kill him, though I may have wanted him dead. Craved for it, the way a glutton craves goat flesh. Oh, to draw a bow and fire it to his black heart, and watch it explode black blood, and to watch his eyes for when they stop blinking, when they look, but stop seeing. To listen for his voice croaking and hear his chest heave in a death rattle, saying, Look, my wretched spirit leaves this most wretched of bodies, and to smile at such tidings and dance at such a loss. Yes, I glut at the conceit of it. But no, I did not kill him. Be odory eno appano. Not everything the eye sees should be spoken by the mouth. The cell is larger than the one before. I smell the dried blood of executed men. I hear their ghosts still screaming. Your bread carries weevils, and your water carries a piece of ten and two guards, and the goat they fuck for sport. Shall I give you a story? I am just a man, who some have called a wolf. The child is dead. I know the old woman brings you different news. Call a murderer, she says. Even though my only sorrow is that I did not kill her, the red-headed one said that the child's head was infested with devils. If you believe in devils, I believe in bad blood. You look like a man who has never shed blood. And yet, blood sticks between your fingers. A boy you circumcised, a young girl too small for your beak. Look how that treats you. Look at you. I will give you a story. It begins with a leopard, and a witch. Grand Inquisitor. Sample complete. Ready to continue?