Walter Mosley

«Escribir una novela no es ni de lejos tan complicado como a ciertos individuos les gustaría dar a entender», asegura Walter Mosley. «He decidido publicar este libro como guía para cualquier persona

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.

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.

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.

A brand- new mystery series from one of the country's best-known, best-loved writers: a new character, a new city, a new era. A new Walter Mosley.

The time is 1948. The town is Los Angeles. The hero is Easy Rawlins, an out of work black war veteran. The mortgage payment's coming due, so Easy accepts the assignment of finding Daphne Monet, a blonde torch singer with a penchant for jazz and criminal black consorts. In his search through a sleazy, fearful city, he is lucky to be under the protection of the murderous Mouse who wants a piece of the action. Easy Rawlins is a fascinating creation driving a plot that carries a fine and bitter sting. With this first novel, Walter Mosley made a distinctly confident start to his career as a great and inspirational writer.

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.

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...

Errol is awakened again by a strange prank caller asking for him by name and claiming to be his fatherwho has been dead for several years. It feels like a surreal call from the grave, until Erroll hears the unmistakable sound of a handset being put down on a table. Curious, and not a little unnerved, he sneaks into the graveyard where his father is buried. What he finds there will change his life forever. But once Errols been touched by The Wave, a presence infecting the planet, can anything be the same again? With the bold imagination that made Blue Light a bestseller, Walter Mosley returns to science fiction with a novel both eerie and transcendent.

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.

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...

A new mystery series from the author of the classic work "Devil in a Blue Dress" offers a new character, a new city, and a new era.

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.

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.

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

The Walter Mosley and his new hero, Leonid McGill, are back in the new New York Times-bestselling mystery series that's already being hailed as a classic of contemporary noir. Leonid McGill-the protagonist introduced in The Long Fall, the book that returned Walter Mosley to bestseller lists nationwide -is still fighting to stick to his reformed ways while the world around him pulls him in every other direction. He has split up with his girlfriend, Aura, because his new self won't let him leave his wife-but then Aura's new boyfriend starts angling to get Leonid kicked out of his prime, top-of-the

We follow former rule-breaker Leonid McGill as he's buffeted between the overlords of New York's underbelly, desperate to turn straight, but unable to say no to a nicely paid job. When we're introduced, he's calling in old favours and greasing NYPD palms to uncover seemingly harmless information for a high-paying client. But when the former schoolmates on his list are bludgeoned to death one by one, McGill realises that a friendly reunion wasn't quite what his taskmaster had in mind. And the awkward questions that follow seem almost welcome in comparison to a visit from Willie Sanderson, a trained killer and 'modern-day Frankenstein', now primed to ensure that McGill breathes his last. THE LONG FALL shows Walter Mosley at the height of his powers, breathing new life into American crime writing with sassy dialogue and unflinching social truths. Vividly capturing a city not nearly as cleaned up as its politicians would have us believe, this is new Mosley - and it's just as good as the vintage kind.