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OverviewFearless Jones and Paris Minton return in a high-velocity thriller about family, betrayal, and revenge. 'I'm in trouble, Paris.' Paris Minton has heard these words before. They mean only one thing: that his neck is on the line too. So when they are uttered by his lowlife cousin Ulysses S. Grant, Paris keeps the door to his bookshop firmly closed. With family like Ulysses - 'Useless' to everyone except his mother - who needs enemies But trouble always finds an open window, and before long Paris is paying a call on his long-time friend and bodyguard, Fearless Jones. Criss-crossing the complicated landscape of 1950s Los Angeles, where a wrong look can get a black man killed, Paris and Fearless find desperate women, secret lives, and more than one dead body along the way. Walter Mosley serves up another taut mystery plot humming with brilliant characterisations, sharp dialogue and dark humour - a combination as fresh and zesty as ever. This is the third book in the series that began with Fearless Jones and Fear Itself. It is Mosley's favourite fictional territory, played with a lighter touch. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Walter MosleyPublisher: Orion Publishing Co Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Dimensions: Width: 17.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 20.60cm Weight: 0.276kg ISBN: 9780753822890ISBN 10: 075382289 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 01 May 2008 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsWatts, 1956. Time for another 15 rounds of unsought violence for bookseller Paris Minton and his friend Fearless Jones.Surrounded by men-and quite a few women-who think they're tough, Paris (Fear Itself, 2003, etc.) considers himself a coward. He's been afraid of the dark ever since the April Fool's night when he spent five hours locked in a crawl space beneath his bookstore with the cooling corpse of his lover Jessa Brown's ex-boyfriend Tiny Bobchek, shot through the head. Burying Tiny in a shallow grave with the help of Fearless and legendary killer and storyteller Van Cleave takes the heat off Paris but doesn't rescue him from the danger brought by another visitor: Paris's cousin Ulysses S. Grant IV, more aptly known as Useless. Realizing that the apple of his Aunt Three Hearts' eye has graduated from theft to large-scale blackmail, Paris reluctantly enlists the help of Fearless and a dozen more questionable allies in tracking down the head blackmailers before the mounting pile of casualties includes him. It's an unlikely task for Paris, who claims to be always afraid, and Fearless, who may be incapable of doing long division.Luckily, the clouds obscuring the labyrinthine plot frequently lift to reveal the clarity of Paris's wisdom, as when he observes that kindly Fearless constantly fights only because we were poor and we were black and so we either fought or we lost ground. (Kirkus Reviews) Author InformationWalter Mosley is the author of numerous other works of fiction and non-fiction. He has received a PEN Lifetime Achievement Award, a Grammy Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Award, among other honours. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |