FICTION
Released: Jan. 24, 2012
"Overplotted even by Mosley's standards, with precious little chance to savor each scene and speaker before they're hustled offstage to make room for the next."
The release of a convicted killer who doesn't happen to be a thief offers another crack at redemption for impossibly compromised New York private eye Leonid McGill (When the Thrill Is Gone, 2011, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: March 8, 2011
"A book filled with sharp individual scenes and hard-headed aphorisms."
A client who isn't a client sends private eye Leonid McGill (
Known to Evil, 2010, etc.) on his latest whirligig tour of New York's dark side.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 11, 2010
"Borrowing from Faust, the Iliad and Gran Torino, Mosley (Known to Evil, 2010, etc.) unforgettably transforms Ptolemy's cacophony of memories into a powerful symphony that makes him "into many men from out of all the lives he had lived through the decades.""
An ancient man living in solitary squalor in Los Angeles is offered an experimental medicine that just might beat back his creeping dementia--and will almost certainly kill him in the process.
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FICTION
Released: March 23, 2010
"A rich collection of individual scenes and people as memorable as the tangled plot is forgettable."
An offer he can't refuse leads Leonid McGill (
The Long Fall, 2009, etc.) on a grim tour that takes him from New York's executive suites to its lowest dives.
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FICTION
Released: March 24, 2009
"Plotting has never been Mosley's strong point, but McGill, a red-diaper baby, ex-boxer and a man eternally at war with himself, may be his most compelling hero yet."
The creator of Easy Rawlins, Socrates Fortlow and Fearless Jones introduces a new detective struggling to live down his checkered past in present-day New York.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 13, 2008
Ex-con Socrates Fortlow, the conscience of South Central Los Angeles (
Walkin' the Dog, 1999, etc.), returns for another dozen interlinked adventures, most of them revolving around dialogues on tough or taboo subjects.
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