Sugar Skin by Nicholas Wilson - Book Review

Sugar Skin is the debut novel of Mr. Wilson, and it is a powerhouse. Hard to describe exactly what genre this book falls under, but it follows the story of protagonist Tank. He’s a young backpacker exploring the world, and it starts out with Tank meeting our storyteller on the Trans-Siberian Express. 

We see an older Tank, and in the second chapter his story begins. He travels to Colombia, meets a cast of other crazed backpackers basking in the less savory activities offered in South America, meets a girl and falls in love, then makes some poor choices and gets captured by a sadistic mass murderer. 

After managing to escape, Tank is brutally attacked and sent to hospital. When he gets out, his love is gone, his friends are gone, and he’s left alone and sad. He then embarks on a journey that will take him deep into the heart of the jungle, where he must face-off against the savage killer and his cult of freaks.