Horseman Book

"A dark and terrifying novel presenting a mythical account of the development of evil through the history of Southern Africa."--Seattle Times. This ferocious new novel by one of South Africa's visionary writers is a post-colonial reimagining of the Book of Revelation--an unholy epic that reenvisions the catastrophic violence of European "civilization" as a hooded rider who spreads slaughter across the African continent--a work that is as unnerving as it is intellectually provocative.

From the author of The Powers That Be and This Day and Age comes a gothic fable akin to Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. Mike Nicol's compelling South African parable is driven by a man's lust for a revenge that proves to be not sweet, but horrific. Apocalyptic and unforgettable, Horseman is Nichol's most accomplished novel yet.