Vixen

‘I had intended him to kill somebody… spend the rest of the story making him human… I was twenty or thirty pages in before I realised he was black. Not only black, he’s a black man who had tried, albeit inchoately, to turn himself into a white man, to live up to white values, at various times in his life, and they always collapse on him.’

James Sallis, on the creation of Lew Griffin.