Winer of the Man Booker Prize 2015A Brief History of Seven Killings, is loosely based on the real-life account of the extraordinary events lead “to the attempted assassination of Bob Marley” in Jamaica in 1976.

Jamaican author Marlon James’s third novel A Brief History of Seven Killings described vividly its aftermath through the crack wars in New York City in the 1980s and a transformed Jamaica in the 1990s.

The novel has five parts, each titled after a musical track and covering the actions of a single day: “Original Rockers: December 2, 1976” “Ambush in the Night: December 3, 1976” “Shadow Dancin’: February 15, 1979” “White Lines/Kids in America: August 14, 1985” “Sound Boy Killing: March 22, 1991”