All I knew about this was that it won the Man Booker Prize & it was about the attempted assassination of Bob Marley.

It turns out that Marley is merely a void around which a portion of the book circles. Eventually it is apparent that The Singer (as he's called) is really incidental to the story that James wants to tell.

It's Grahame Greene by way of James Ellroy. Multiple POVs, strong dialect. It's a profane, violent, shocking look at third world slums and American Imperialism.

It's an absolutely brilliant book.

Now to go read his other work.