Stuff
Adobe DRM
Product Details
Washington Square Press, June 2010
eBook, 368 pages
ISBN-10: 1451612478
ISBN-13: 9781451612479
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Chapter 1
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1961: For most black Americans, these were times of hope. For former P.I. Easy Rawlins, Los Angeles's mean streets were never meaner...or more deadly. Ordinarily, Easy would have thrown the two bills in the sleazy shamus' face -- the white man who wanted him to find the notorious Black Betty, an ebony siren whose talent for all things rich and male took her from Houston's Fifth Ward to Beverly Hills. There was too much Easy wasn't being told, but he couldn't resist the prospect of seeing Betty again, even if it killed him....
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Chapter 1Newsweek
Elegantly crafted...Mosley's best book yet.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Marvelous storytelling.
San Diego Union Tribune
Perceptive and poignant, humorous and horrifying...a rare blend of top-flight entertainment and incisive social comment.
Walter Mosley's Books
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Devil in a Blue DressLos Angeles, 1948: Easy Rawlins is a black war veteran just fired from his job at a defense plant. Easy is drinking in a friend's bar, wondering how...Read More
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Always Outnumbered, Always OutgunnedNew York Times bestselling author Walter Mosley introduces an "astonishing character" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) in this acclaimed collection of...Read More
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White ButterflyThe police don't show up on Easy Rawlins's doorstep until the third girl dies. It's Los Angeles, 1956, and it takes more than one murdered black girl...Read More
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R L'S DreamSoupspoon Wise is dying on the unforgiving streets of New York City, years and worlds away from the Mississippi delta, where he once jammed with blues...Read More
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A Little Yellow DogNovember 1963: Easy's settled into a steady gig as a school custodian. It's a quiet, simple existence -- but a few moments of ecstasy with a sexy...Read More
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The Tempest TalesMistaken for another man, wily Tempest is "accidentally" shot by police. Sent to receive the judgment of heaven he discovers that his sins, according...Read More
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Six Easy PiecesEasy should be living a contented life, with steady work as senior head custodian of Sojourner Truth High School, and a loving family. But happiness...Read More -
Gone Fishin'In the beginning...there was Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins and Raymond "Mouse" Alexander -- two young men setting out in life, hitting the road in a...Read More
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The Plot ThickensJoining together for a good cause brings out the best in today's top mystery and suspense writers! For this marvelously entertaining anthology, these...Read More
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