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 countryβs 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. Itβs a name that takes a little explaining, but heβs used to it. βDaddy was a communist and great-great- Granddaddy was a slave master from Scotland. You know, the black manβs family tree is mostly root. Whatever you see above ground is only a hint at the real story.β
Ex-boxer, hard drinker, in a business that trades mostly in cash and favors: McGillβs an old-school P.I. working a city thatβs gotten fancy all around him. Fancy or not, he has always managed to get byβkeep a roof over the head of his wife and kids, and still manage a little fun on the sideβmostly because heβs never been above taking a shady job for a quick buck. But like the city itself, McGill is turning over a new leaf, βdecided to go from crooked to slightly bent.β
New York City in the twenty-first century is a city full of secretsβand still a place that reacts when you know where to poke and which string to pull. Thatβs 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 thatβs inspiring his best work since the classic Devil in a Blue Dress.
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