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 #2
Penguin
April 2010
On Sale: March 23, 2010
Featuring: Leonid McGill
336 pages ISBN: 1594487529 EAN: 9781594487521 Hardcover Add to Wish List
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 skyscraper office space.
Meanwhile, one of his sons seems to have found true love-but
the girl has a shady past that's all of sudden threatening
the whole McGill family-and his other son, the charming
rogue Twilliam, is doing nothing but enabling the crisis.
Most ominously of all, Alfonse Rinaldo, the mysterious
power-behind- the-throne at City Hall, the fixer who seems
to control every little thing that happens in New York City,
has a problem that even he can't fix- and he's come to
Leonid for help. It seems a young woman has disappeared,
leaving murder in her wake, and it means everything to
Rinaldo to track her down. But he won't tell McGill his
motives, which doesn't quite square with the new company
policy- but turning down Rinaldo is almost impossible to
even contemplate. Known to Evil delivers on all the promise
of the characters and story lines introduced in The Long
Fall, and then some. It careens fast and deep into gritty,
glittery contemporary Manhattan, making the city pulse in a
whole new way, and it firmly establishes Leonid McGill as
one of the mystery world's most iconic, charismatic leading men.
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