Walter Mosley

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

Easy Rawlins no se acostumbra a llevar una vida tranquila. A pesar de tener una mujer que le quiere, unos hijos que le adoran, una casa con jardín trasero y un trabajo en un instituto donde todos le respetan, Easy necesita algo que pensaba que habia dejado atras. Añora a su explosivo amigo Mouse, al que cree muerto, y aquella sensacion de constante peligro que siempre le rodeaba. Por eso, casi sin pretenderlo, vuelve a la calle a hacer lo que mejor sabe: resolver problemas de amigos y conocidos, y meterse en lios que le podrian llevar a la carcel o algo peor. Mientras tanto, no pierde la ocasion de buscar pistas para averiguar si su antiguo compañero de correrias ha desaparecido para siempre.

Bestselling author Walter Mosley has proven himself a master of narrative tension, both with his extraordinary fiction and gripping writing for television. The Awkward Black Man collects seventeen of Mosley's most accomplished short stories to showcase the full range of his remarkable talent. Mosley presents distinct characters as they struggle to move through the world in each of these stories?heroes who are awkward, nerdy, self-defeating, self-involved, and, on the whole, odd.He overturns the stereotypes that corral black male characters and paints a subtle, powerful portrait of each of these unique individuals. In "The Good News Is," a man's insecurity about his weight gives way to a serious illness and the intense loneliness that accompanies it. Deeply vulnerable, he allows himself to be taken advantage of in return for a little human comfort in a raw display of true need."Pet Fly," previously published in the New Yorker, follows a man working as a mailroom clerk for a big company?a solitary job for which he is overqualified?and the unforeseen repercussions he endures when he attempts to forge a connection beyond the one he has with the fly buzzing around his apartment. And "Almost Alyce" chronicles failed loves, family loss, alcoholism, and a Zen approach to the art of begging that proves surprisingly effective. Touching and contemplative, each of these unexpected stories offers the best of one of our most gifted writers.

Easy Rawlins lleva una vida tranquila, se ha casado, tiene una hija y se ocupa de sus negocios inmobiliarios. En su barrio ha habido varios asesinatos de mujeres negras de vida alegre, a los que ni las autoridades ni la prensa han prestado mucha atencion. Hasta que la victima es una universitaria blanca que estaba en el lugar equivocado en el momento equivocado. ¿O tal vez no? Easy debera desentrañar los secretos de esa enigmatica Mariposa Blanca para dar con el asesino.

Winner of the RBA Prize for Crime Writing 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 officers 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.

From innovative bestselling novelist Walter Mosley comes the return of the beloved Leonid McGill detective series featuring a morally ambiguous P.I. who solves crimes and whose victims are society's most downtrodden.Leonid McGill's spent a lifetime building up his reputation in the New York investigative scene. His seemingly infallible instinct and inside knowledge of the crime world make him the ideal man to help when Phillip Worry comes knocking.Phillip "Catfish" Worry is a 92-year-old Mississippi bluesman who needs Leonid's help with a simple task: deliver a letter revealing the black lineage of a wealthy heiress and her corrupt father. Unsurprisingly, the opportunity to do a simple favor while shocking the prevailing elite is too much for Leonid to resist.But when a famed and feared assassin puts a hit on Catfish, Leonid has no choice but to confront the ghost of his own felonious past. Working to protect his client, and his own family, Leonid must reach the heiress on the eve of her wedding before her powerful father kills those who hold their family's secret.Joined by a team of young and tough aspiring investigators, Leonid must gain the trust of wary socialites, outsmart vengeful thugs, and, above all, serve the truth-- no matter the cost.

El año: 1948, pasada ya la época de la Ley Seca, pero en un mundo en el que hay cientos de oportunidades para negocios más bien ilegales. La ciudad: Los Ángeles, donde florecen los clubes nocturnos y la jerga de la postguerra. El protagonista: Easy Rawlins, un curtido ex combatiente negro sin trabajo, al que le caera del cielo -o por encargo de Dewitt Albright, un personaje harto dudoso- la mision de buscar a una mujer. Ella es Dephne Monet, una cantante blanca que frecuenta garitos de negros donde los blancos no son habitualmente bien recibidos, rubia, hermosa, dificil de encontrar y mas bien fatal. Y su busqueda llevara a Easy desde los mas reconditos clubes nocturnos hasta las residencias de los politicos que esconden mas de un secreto, desde las callejuelas de los duros guetos de la gente de color hasta los mas complejos laberintos del poder.

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.

In this tenth supercharged novel in Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins series, L.A.'s most reluctant detective finds himself immersed in a sea of problems--and in a world of danger.

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."

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.