Tigerman: A Novel

"The best post-colonial novel of the year, and also one of the slyest critiques on our comic book and video game culture. Tigerman is the funny, beautiful and sharply paced story of a retiring soldier forced to become a hero for an abandoned boy as his island home gets pulled apart by politics, science and crime. But both the boy and the man are more than they appear, and the way they come together by the end of the book will leave you knowing that Nick Harkaway, the son of spy writer John LeCarré, has the family business well in hand."