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3.94 AVERAGE
3.94 AVERAGE
Found this in a library display and didn't realize that it was part of a series... might explore this more.
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
You put Easy Rawlins and Fearless Jones together? I'm all in! Plus appearances by Mouse and Bad Boy Brawly Brown? Shoooooooooooot
I've been reading about Easy Rawlins for over 20 years, ever since Bill Clinton first flagged him up, and we're kind of growing old together. Set just around the time I was born, Rawlins here is the same age as I am now.
As complexly plotted as ever, Charcoal Joe finds Easy establishing himself (finally) as a licensed private detective, and this story revisits almost the entire cast of supporting characters from the last 20 years. It starts with Mouse, which is never a good place to start, and takes in Bonnie and Jackson Blue, Mama Jo and Melvin Suggs with a nice crossover from Fearless Jones. Mosley is playing his greatest hits here and the crowd loves it.
I stayed up all night to finish Devil in a Blue Dress back in 1996. This time around, I went to sleep in the middle, but my reading experience was just as fresh and as thrilling as the first time.
As complexly plotted as ever, Charcoal Joe finds Easy establishing himself (finally) as a licensed private detective, and this story revisits almost the entire cast of supporting characters from the last 20 years. It starts with Mouse, which is never a good place to start, and takes in Bonnie and Jackson Blue, Mama Jo and Melvin Suggs with a nice crossover from Fearless Jones. Mosley is playing his greatest hits here and the crowd loves it.
I stayed up all night to finish Devil in a Blue Dress back in 1996. This time around, I went to sleep in the middle, but my reading experience was just as fresh and as thrilling as the first time.
Yeah, read it in one day. Because that's how Easy Rawlins books work. You start and can't stop.
Once again, we have a complex character, dealing with very colorful (no pun intended) people who are doing very bad things. One thing that I think will stick with me here is the fact that Easy comes up against a very capable foe, a "Mouse before there was a Mouse", and is told that, while he is one man, his legion of friends and associates (and Mouse, of course) is with him as well. In a very memorable scene, he is told just WHY he's the most feared man in Southern Cali, and the list of people he has connections with, that he's done work for, that he's traded favors with is so vast and so intimidating that he's not being touched. And this surprises him, because he wasn't thinking hat way.
All in all, a very enjoyable book as usual, and Mosley's mixing of action with life experiences and down-home wisdom resonates as it always has.
Once again, we have a complex character, dealing with very colorful (no pun intended) people who are doing very bad things. One thing that I think will stick with me here is the fact that Easy comes up against a very capable foe, a "Mouse before there was a Mouse", and is told that, while he is one man, his legion of friends and associates (and Mouse, of course) is with him as well. In a very memorable scene, he is told just WHY he's the most feared man in Southern Cali, and the list of people he has connections with, that he's done work for, that he's traded favors with is so vast and so intimidating that he's not being touched. And this surprises him, because he wasn't thinking hat way.
All in all, a very enjoyable book as usual, and Mosley's mixing of action with life experiences and down-home wisdom resonates as it always has.
You put Easy Rawlins and Fearless Jones together? I'm all in! Plus appearances by Mouse and Bad Boy Brawly Brown? Shoooooooooooot