Walter Mosley

Bookshop owner Paris Minton is minding his own business when a brief encounter with a beautiful stranger gets him beaten, shot at, Rob and then burned out of store and home. Paris needs help but a secret weapon - Brave Reckless ww iihero Fearless Jones is in jail. Valentine to dish out some heavy Justice Paris plots to get Jones back on the streets. But when these two men come together they'll find themselves wrapped up in a bewilder and Vortex of sex money and murder and a dicey and game that's littered with dangerous players.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Virginia

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Walter Mosley, "one of crime fiction's brightest stars" (People), returns to mysteries at last-with a dazzling new thriller set in the deadly back alleys of 1950s L.A.... Bookshop owner Paris Minton is minding his own business when a brief encounter with a beautiful stranger gets him beaten, shot at, robbed, and then burned out of store and home. Paris needs help but his secret weapon-brave, reckless WWII hero Fearless Jones-is in jail. Vowing to dish out some heavy justice, Paris plots to get Jones back on the street. But when these two men come together, they'll find themselves trapped in a bewildering vortex of sex, money, and murder-and a dicey endgame that's littered with dangerous players...

Fearless Jones

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Arizona

Nine Stories of an Imminent World

Projecting a near-future United States in which justice is blind in at least one eye and the ranks of the disenchanted have swollen to dangerous levels, Mosely offers nine interconnected stories whose characters appear and reappear in each others' lives. For all its denizens, from technocrats to terrorists, celebs to crooks, "Futureland" is an all-American nightmare just waiting to happen.

Futureland

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Blue Light

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Michigan

Intergalactic visions, deadly threats, and explosive standoffs between mostly good and nearly completely evil converge in an alternative fiction novel that could only be conceived by the inimitable Walter Mosley, one of the country's most beloved and acclaimed writers. Martin Just wakes up one morning after what feels like, and might actually be, a centuries-long sleep with two new innate pieces of knowledge: Humanity is a virus destined to destroy all existence. And that he is the Cure. Martin, his wife, and his two children are the only Black family on their neighborhood block in the Hollywood hills of Los Angeles. Suddenly, Martin is both father and Antibody, husband and Cure, occasionally slipping into an alternate consciousness - equipped with unprecedented physical strength - to violently defend them. The family is stalked by Tor Waxman - the pale, white-haired embodiment of death who wears a dapper suit, carries a cane, and seeks to destroy all life with his fatal touch. Martin must convince his family of the danger and get them to engage with him in a battle beyond all imagining. Mosley effortlessly marries the sublime and the pedestrian: from monumental battles with truly universal stakes to the banality of standoffs with neighborhood police patrols, and the quotidian yet joyfully intimate conversations the family shares at home while gathered for dinner. With his boundless talent and skilled range, Walter Mosley brings an ethereal, incisive look at a primal struggle driven by the spirit of the universe, in the vein of masters Octavia Butler, N.K. Jemisin, and Jeff VanderMeer. Expansive and innovative, sexy and satirical, Touched brilliantly imagines the ways in which human life and technological innovation threaten existence itself.

Touched

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In gently used condition with very light wear. First edition

California

When several people are struck by a blue light, they evolve into a superhuman race who try to spread their message of evolution and higher purpose to the rest of the world, in a speculative novel about the ultimate purpose of the human race. By the author of the Easy Rawlins mysteries. 50,000 first printing. Tour.

Pennsylvania

Trying to locate a family friend who has become involved with a radical resistance group, Easy Rawlins stumbles onto a murder scene only to be named a suspect, and he finds himself exploring a world of betrayal, trying to stay alive. 275,000 first printing.

Bad Boy Brawly Brown

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Iowa

A young man reinvents himself as a professor to share his late father's wisdom at an unorthodox university, only to encounter fellow intellectuals who have insights into his father's hidden past.

John Woman

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Oklahoma

"Easy Rawlins returns to solve a mystery set amid the flames of the hottest summer L.A. has ever seen." "Just after devastating riots tear through Los Angeles in 1965 - when anger is high and fear still smolders everywhere - the police turn up at Easy Rawlins's doorstep. He expects the worst, as usual. But they've come to ask for his help." "A man was wrenched from his car by a mob at the riots' peak and escaped into a nearby apartment building. Soon afterward, a redheaded woman known as Little Scarlet was found dead in that building - and the fleeing man is the obvious suspect. But the man has vanished." "The police fear that their presence in certain neighborhoods could spark a new inferno, so they ask Easy Rawlins to see what he can discover. The vanished man is the key, but he is only the beginning. Easy enlists the help of his longtime friend Mouse to break through the shroud. And what Easy finds is a killer whose rage, like that which burned in the city for weeks, is intrinsically woven around deep-set passions - feelings echoed within Easy himself." "Rawlins's hunt for the killer reveals a new city emerging from the ashes, with the promise of a new life for Easy, Mouse, and his old friends Jackson Blue and Jewelle."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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The First Leonid Mcgill Mystery

Getting by as an old-school private investigator in spite of Manhattan's increasingly sophisticated culture, Leonid McGill finds his commitment to living a straight-and-narrow life repeatedly tested when he attempts to obtain seemingly harmless information for a high-paying client. Reprint. A best-selling novel.

The Long Fall

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It's 1963 easy Rawlins has given up the street life that has brought him so much trouble in grief. He's taken on a job as a supervising custodian of surgery truth junior high school and lots. For two years he's been getting up early and going off to work. He wears nice clothes and puts on all his energy and love into his job and his adopted children. Easy likes his new life even though it feels empty and a little bored sometimes. But all that is about to change. Easy comes in early one morning to find one of the teachers already in her classroom. She has a dog with her and the story about a husband going mad. Before he knows what's happening the teacher is in his arms. Before the day is over the teacher is gone leaving easy with her dog and the hand semest corpse easy has ever seen in school garden. That night a second corpse turns up. Easy may have left their streets but he still hasn't forgotten. The world is changing faster than he can keep up with. The police believe that easy is involved with the murders. Old enemies are waiting to get even. The principal of the school wants to fire him. His old friends aren't the same and is new friends might be his death. Easy wants back into his careful little life but that door is closed. A murderer is running loose somewhere. And a little yellow dog plot through revenge.

Excellent condition for its age Copyright 1996

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A little yellow dog

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Easy Rawlins tries to save an old friend's stepson, Brawly Brown, from the political group he joined in Compton.

Bad Boy Brawly Brown  3497

Alabama

Magic marker on top but otherwise good condition

Massachusetts

Master storyteller Walter Mosley deftly mixes speculative and historical fiction in this daring New York Times bestselling novel, reminiscent of Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad.

47 is a young slave boy living under the watchful eye of a brutal slave master. His life seems doomed until he meets a mysterious runaway slave, Tall John. 47 finds himself swept up in a struggle for his own liberation.

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Missing the dust jacket but otherwise in perfect condition

North Carolina

New York

A Novel

It's 1966, and Easy Rawlins is desperate for cash to pay for his daughter's much-needed medical treatment. Easy gets a gig working for a legendary private eye on a missing person case. Soon, Easy's search uncovers a shocking crime in Mosley's latest sizzling "New York Times" bestseller.

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Alaska

Easy Rawlins can't resist the chance of seeing Black Betty again, even if he has to risk his life.

Black Betty

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All I Did Was Shoot My Man

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Florida

A King Oliver Novel

In the latest from "mystery master" Walter Mosley, a family member's terminal illness leads P.I. Joe King Oliver to the investigation of his life: tracking down his long-lost father, and meanwhile, a new case pits King's professional responsibility against his own moral code. (TheWashington Post) Praise for the novels of Walter Mosley: "A master of the genre...Mosley's writing is so rich, and his characters are not like anyone else's, anywhere. It's noir with a social conscience, noir with its thinking cap on... revelatory." - Tracy Clark, Washington Post "Skitters across the spectrum between orthodox and radical like a polygraph needle wired to a nervy accomplice. . . deliciously gritty noir."―Daniel Nieh, New York Times Book Review "The evocative prose and astute observations about human nature, race relations and family bonds that have distinguished Mosley's writing for some 30 years."―Paula Woods, Los Angeles Times "As knotty as the plot can get, the book is consistently lifted by the intelligence of its characters...Mosley is in top form as a social observer: Absolute poverty, muses his protagonist, is being imprisoned: 'the experience of being slowly murdered by a state of being.' Mosley's reportorial eye is equally sharp in making details count..."--Kirkus Reviews "a modern master of the noir form, ... Mosley knows exactly how to craft a mystery that keeps you at the edge of your seat all the while forcing you to reckon with sinister forces at the heart of American society." -- Dwyer Murphy, CrimeReads "Mosley is a master of craft and narrative, and through his incredibly vibrant and diverse body of work, our literary heritage has truly been enriched."--National Book Foundation "Few mystery writers can examine issues of race--how it divides and binds people--as clearly and unflinchingly as Walter Mosley."―Oline Cogdill, Associated Press

Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right

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Minnesota

From the best-selling author of A Little Yellow Dog -- the eagerly awaited debut of Socrates Fortlow, a bold and original new hero.Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned introduces Walter Mosley's most compelling new character since the debut of his immortal detective Easy Rawlins: one Socrates Fortlow, a tough, brooding ex-convict determined to challenge and understand the violence and anarchy in his world -- and in himself.Three decades ago, the young Socrates had, in a burst of drunken rage, murdered a man and a woman with his huge rock-breaking hands. Twenty-seven years of hard time in an Indiana prison followed. Now Socrates lives in a cramped, two-room apartment in an abandoned building in Watts, scavenging bottles and delivering groceries for a supermarket. In each of the stories that comprise this richly brooding novel, Socrates Fortlow, like his namesake, explores philosophical questions of morality in a world beset with crime, poverty, and racism. He is an unforgettable presence and his perceptions cast a glow of somber lyricism upon an often harsh world. Socrates is a creation of stunning originality; the book he inhabits is Walter Mosley's most powerful and eloquent to date.

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