Walter Mosley

A mystery caller sends Leonid McGill to an uptown address ''just to check a girl''s OK''. There''s no explanation -- just a name, Angelique -- a reward, and the chilling knowledge that he''s working for Rinaldo Alphonse, the most feared man in New York. What LT finds is a crime scene. A girl lies with her face blown off, her assassin felled by a knife. But the dead girl isn''t the one LT was sent to find, and her killer''s injuries don''t make sense. The next day Alphonse comes calling: LT must find Angelique before the assassin''s assassin tracks her down. Alphonse isn''t the only one who wants a bit of LT''s time -- the NYPD, finding his appearance too convenient, think they can finally put away the thorn in their side. But why do so many people want a piece of the apparently normal, clean-living Angelique? And why is the mafia coming after McGill, linking his sons -- shy Dmitri and streetwise Twill -- to the escape of a sex-trafficked Belarussian girl? As both plots career towards a thrilling finale, McGill must put his street know-how and book of lethal contacts to the test, while haunted by the reappearance of a face from his crooked past and his wife Katrina''s continued infidelities.

Leonid McGill can't say no to the beautiful woman who walks into his office with a stack of cash and a story. She's married to a rich art collector. Now she fears for her life. Leonid knows better than to believe her, but he can't afford to turn her away, even if he knows this woman's tale will bring him straight to death's door.

Los Ángeles, 1969. Al despacho de Easy Rawlins llega un joven exsoldado que no hace mucho estaba luchando en la selva de Vietnam. Necesita ayuda porque ha apuñalado a un hombre negro que estaba atacando a una chica y cree haberlo matado. No lo sabe con seguridad, ya que en la refriega alguien lo golpeo y lo dejo inconsciente. Normalmente, Easy nunca aceptaria un caso asi, con poco que ganar y mucho que perder, pero siente una extraña afinidad con su potencial cliente. Aunque sabe que es un grave error, no puede evitar cometerlo.SI QUIERES SOBREVIVIR, TEN AMIGOS AUN MAS PELIGROSOS QUE TUS ENEMIGOS

When four armed policemen turn up at Easy Rawlins' door, he thinks he's in trouble. He is. They want him to find Rosemary Goldsmith, the daughter of a millionaire arms dealer. And Easy can't afford to say no. They think she's with Bob Mantle, a boxer turned radical. As a black man in post-war LA, Easy has access to Mantle's world. The LAPD does not. But Mantle's world is a dangerous one. When Easy is almost gunned down on his first day on the case, he realises he'll need more than his wits to find Rose Gold. Has she been kidnapped? Is she colluding? And what does her father really want? Taking you to the beating heart of a wild, corrupt city, Rose Gold matches an iconic detective with his most explosive case yet.

We thought we''d seen the last of Easy Rawlins at the end of BLONDE FAITH. But it takes more than an oncoming car to stop LA''s finest PI.As Easy wakes from his coma, the last thing he needs is an investigation. But a friend''s son is in trouble and old habits die hard. So Easy wades into the squats, clubs and LSD dens of Sunset Boulevard, trying to find the missing boy, Evander. What he discovers will take him on a journey into the dark underbelly of 1960s culture, where Evander''s disappearance is only one piece of a far larger puzzle...LITTLE GREEN is Mosley''s finest work since DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS - a brilliant novel showing a world-class author reunited with his most beloved protagonist.

Millions of men and (no doubt many) women have watched famed black porn queen Debbie Dare--she of the blond wig and blue contacts--"do it" on television and computer screens in every combination of partners and positions imaginable. But after an unexpected and thunderous on-set orgasm catches her unawares, Debbie returns home to find her porn-producer husband dead, electrocuted in their hot tub in the midst of "auditioning" an aspiring young starlet. Burdened with massive debts that her husband incurred, and which various L.A. heavies want to collect on, Debbie must find a way to extricate herself from the peculiar subculture of the porn industry and reconcile herself to sacrifices she's made along the way. In" Debbie Doesn't Do it Anymore, " the creator of the Easy Rawlins series has painted""a moving portrait of a resilient soul in search of salvation and a cure for grief.

A former NYPD cop, once imprisoned for a crime he did not commit, must solve two cases: that of a man wrongly condemned to die . . . and his own.Joe King Oliver was one of the NYPD''''s finest investigators until, dispatched to arrest a well-heeled car thief, he is framed for assault, a charge that lands him in the notorious Rikers Island prison.A decade later, King is a private detective, running his agency with the help of his teenage daughter, Aja-Denise. When he receives a card in the mail from the woman who admits she was paid by someone in the NYPD to frame him all those years ago, King realises that he has no choice but to take his own case: figuring out who on the force wanted him disposed of - and why.At the same time, King must investigate the case of black radical journalist Leonard Compton, aka A Free Man, accused of killing two on-duty police offices who had been abusing their badges to traffic drugs and women into the city''''s poorest neighbourhoods.In pursuit of justice, our hero must beat dirty cops and even dirtier bankers. All the while, two lives hang in the balance: Compton''''s, and King''''s own.

La serie que protagoniza Easy Rawlins llega a su décima y tal vez última entrega con esta novela, en la que Walter Mosley nos traslada al turbulento Los Angeles de finales de los 60. Situada en 1967, en la decima entrega de la serie de novelas criminales protagonizada por Easy Rawlins nos encontramos a un Rawlins de mediana edad que empieza a acusar el paso del tiempo y los fantasmas que nunca lo abandonaron. Easy esta lidiando con en el hecho de haber abandonado a Bonnie a pesar de amarla como a ninguna otra mujer, con que sus hijos ya se han hecho mayores y con que Los Angeles esta sufriendo cambios tan radicales despues de los enfrentamientos raciales, que hasta a un superviviente como el le cuesta adaptarse a la ciudad donde siempre ha vivido. Sin embargo, Rawlins siempre parece encontrar nuevos problemas a los que hacer frente. Dos peligrosos amigos de Easy, Raton Alexander y Navidad Black, han desaparecido. Al primero lo buscan por el asesinato de Pericles Tarr; Navidad, por su parte, dejo a su hija Pascua en casa de Easy y se esfumo. La aparicion de la policia militar en busca de Black, hace que Easy se ponga a trabajar para descubrir que ha pasado y la relacion que existe entre las desapariciones de sus amigos, el asesinato de Tarr y la aparicion de una mujer rubia que no es como parece ser. Sus compactos dialogos continuan centelleando y el modo en que Mosley compone sus escenas sigue siendo tan sagaz como siempre The New York Times

Just after devastating riots tear through Los Angeles in 1965 the police turn up at Easy Rawlin's doorstep 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 neighbourhoods 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. Rawlins's hunt for the killer reveals a new city emerging from the ashes. Mosley's lean and musical vernacular captures the heat and the rhythm of Los Angeles' heart, where danger is the common currency of everyday life.

The arrival of his lowlife cousin, Ulysses S. "Useless" Grant, spells trouble for Paris Minton, who discovers that his wayward relative has become involved in a high-stakes blackmail scheme, and his friend, Fearless Jones, as they become embroiled in a bizarre case involving mysterious women, desperate blackmail victims, cheating business partners, and murder.

When Cordell Carmel catches his long-term girlfriend in the throes of ecstasy with another man - the thick-necked chauvinist Johnny Fry - something profound happens to him. Overnight, the calm life of this middle-aged translator becomes something unrecognizable. As the boundaries of his routine existence dissolve, he finds himself suddenly prey both to thoughts of murder and to an insatiable libido, and begins a dark and outrageously explicit sexual odyssey through New York in search of retribution and gratification. Along the way, he develops an obsession with a mysterious woman named Sisypha, who leads him deep into the erotic heart of the city. "Killing Johnny Fry" is about a man questioning for the first time the social and sexual rules we take for granted - and the powerful, disturbing connections that can be made between people when these rules are subverted. It is something altogether new and provocative from one of America's most celebrated writers.

It's 1956 and no one official in Los Angeles pays much attention when three black bar girls are murdered. But when a white stripper is similarly murdered and she turns out to be the daughter of a pow

Is there anyone who doesn''t wonder now and again about how differently their life could have turned out? About a more interesting, more adventurous, more dangerous past they could have had? Ben Dibbuk is married to the beautiful Mona, has a lovely daughter and a well-paid job in NYC - but he''s been locked in this dream for more years than he can say. But nothing can prepare Ben for his chance meeting with Star, a mysterious woman at a launch for the hip magazine Diablerie - because Star claims to share a gruesome secret that Ben just can''t remember. Has Star spun a diabolical web of lies, or could it be that something terrible really did happen back in June 1979? Ben''s grip on the truth begins to falter, and the line between what really happened and what might have done becomes harder and harder to negotiate Walter Mosley, creator of sometime-fixer Easy Rawlins who appeared in classic thrillers such as Devil in a Blue Dress, and recently, the shocking deliciously scandalous Killing Johnny Fry, is one of former US president Bill Clinton''s favourite authors.

Rawlins necesita una cantidad importante de dinero para pagar el hospital suizo donde curar la enfermedad de su hija. Para ello debe buscar a un excéntrico abogado y asu asistente, Canela, que han desaparecido. En el camino, tropezara con una informacion que inculpa al abogado desaparecido de tratos con los nazis...

Una novela en la que el sexo significa el resurgir de un individuo acorralado por la soledad que intenta comprender el delicado tejido de las relaciones humanas.La vida de Cordell Carmel, un hombre de mediana edad, cambiara para siempre la noche en que, por casualidad, sorprende a su novia Joelle en la cama con Johnny Fry, un hombre al que acaban de conocer. A partir de ahi su rutinaria existencia se desmorona. Las relaciones con mujeres, el alcohol y la venganza marcaran las pautas de su nueva vida. Su objetivo: recuperar el tiempo perdido, sus señas de identidad y, sobre todo, matar a Johnny Fry...

When Cordell Carmel catches his long-term girlfriend with another man - the thick-necked chauvinist Johnny Fry - something profound happens to him. Overnight Cordell's calm life dissolves. Finding himself prey both to thoughts of murder and an insatiable libido, he begins a dark sexual odyssey in search of retribution and gratification, leading him deep into the erotic heart of New York City.

Rosemary Goldsmith, the daughter of a weapons manufacturer, has been kidnapped by a black revolutionary cell called Scorched Earth. Their leader, Uhuru Nolica, is holding her for ransom and if he doesn t receive the money, weapons, and apology he demands, Rose Gold will die horribly and publicly. So the authorities turn to Easy Rawlins, the one man who can cross the necessary lines to resolve this dangerous standoff and find Rose Gold before it s too late. In the sixties era of black nationalism, political abductions, and epidemic police corruption, Easy s investigation will pull him unremittingly and inevitably into the darkest underbelly of Los Angeles."