Marlon James' brilliant imagining of a Bob Marley assassination that never happened won him the prestigious Man Booker Prize. But more than being this year's big winner, the country of Jamaica, where the writer hails, also revels in the honor of snagging their first ever win in the accolade as a nation.

The author's masterpiece titled "The Brief History of Seven Killings," which he admitted was the riskiest he ever wrote, sees a group's attempt to kill the Jamaican music legend. The tome has 686 pages chockfull of violence and sex with FBI and CIA agents running around as well as hooligans and ghosts and drugs.

"[It was] very exciting, very violent, full of swearing. It was a book we didn't actually have any difficulty deciding on - it was a unanimous decision, little bit to our surprise," Man Booker Prize judge panel chair Michael Wood said via The Guardian, adding that it was "the most exciting book on the list."

James accepted the award from Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall and dedicated it to his father, who he revealed had a major influence on his writing when he was just a young boy. He then shared how his "literary sensibilities were shaped" by the accolade itself as well.

Although he revealed he wrote "A Brief History of Seven Killings" outside Jamaica, even calling it "a novel of exile" that allowed him to much-needed distance and fewer consequences, as he explained, he hopes that it would help put the spotlight on other brilliant writers in the Caribbean.

James says that he "would have been happy with two people liking it" but after this huge Man Booker Prize victory, his book, which serves as his third, was catapulted to new heights, racking up Amazon sales, with customers raring to flip through the award-winning title.

But apart from sales, James revealed via Wall Street Journal that "A Brief History of Seven Killings" has already been optioned for TV. If all goes well (and it looks like it will be), the adaptation will join the mega successful "Game of Thrones" series inspired by George RR Martin's saga in HBO.

"We're working, trying to work, on a TV series with HBO. Things are still—I wouldn't say up in the air, we have a script and all of that - but it's still pretty early. We have a director that's interested. Everybody is upbeat and excited, but it's still really, really early," James stated.