Black As He's Painted (Roderick Alleyn Series #28)

Portrait of a murder...

Superintendent Roderick Alleyn's old school chum— whom his wife Troy longs to paint— is now President of Ng'ombwana, a brand-new African republic. This handsome, charismatic dictator has enemies of every stripe: from ruddy-faced ex-colonists to new rivals, from dispossessed businessmen to racist crackpots. But when a ceremonial spear deals death at his lavish embassy party in London, Alleyn must decipher the victim's last utterance and expose an assassin's true colors...