Leonid McGill #1
Riverhead
April 2009
On Sale: March 24, 2009
Featuring: Leonid McGill
320 pages ISBN: 1594488584 EAN: 9781594488580 Hardcover Add to Wish List
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.
His name is
etched on the door of his Manhattan office: LEONID McGILL ,
PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR. It’s a name that takes a little
explaining, but he’s used to it. “Daddy was a communist and
great-great- Granddaddy was a slave master from Scotland.
You know, the black man’s family tree is mostly root.
Whatever you see above ground is only a hint at the real
story.”
Ex-boxer, hard drinker, in a business that
trades mostly in cash and favors: McGill’s an old-school
P.I. working a city that’s gotten fancy all around him.
Fancy or not, he has always managed to get by—keep a roof
over the head of his wife and kids, and still manage a
little fun on the side—mostly because he’s never been above
taking a shady job for a quick buck. But like the city
itself, McGill is turning over a new leaf, “decided to go
from crooked to slightly bent.”
New York City in the
twenty-first century is a city full of secrets—and still a
place that reacts when you know where to poke and which
string to pull. That’s exactly the kind of thing Leonid
McGill knows how to do. As soon as The Long Fall
begins, with McGill calling in old markers and greasing NYPD
palms to unearth some seemingly harmless information for a
high-paying client, he learns that even in this cleaned-up
city, his commitment to the straight and narrow is going to
be constantly tested.
And we learn that with this
protagonist, this city, this time, Mosley has tapped a rich
new vein that’s inspiring his best work since the classic
Devil in a Blue Dress.
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