Sly Mongoose

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Sly Mongoose is a folk song and a novel. It is the third science fiction novel of Caribbean writer Tobias S. Buckell. The novel is a standalone but is set in the same universe as Buckell's novels Crystal Rain and Ragamuffin. The novels are also linked by a recurring character.
The name "Sly Mongoose" is taken from a Jamaican folk song. The tune has been covered by different jazz musicians including Charlie "Bird" Parker and Louis Armstrong. The song is well known around the Caribbean and versions with differing lyrics have been sung as calypsos. Lord Invader and Sam Manning recorded the song. The Jamaican National Dance Theatre Company have performed it in a dance choreographed by Rex Nettleford.