Blood grove / Walter Mosley.
1969. Easy Rawlins, the Black private detective whose small agency finally has its own office, gets a visit from a white Vietnam veteran. The young man claims he and his lover were attacked in a citrus grove at the city's outskirts. He may have killed a man, and the woman and his dog are now missing. Inclined to turn down what sounds like nothing but trouble, Easy takes the case when he realizes how damaged the young vet is from his war experiences. Easy will need the help of his friends to make sense of a case that reveals the darkest impulses humans harbor. -- adapted from jacket
Record details
- ISBN: 9780316491181 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 0316491187 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 307 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
General Note: | Sequel to: Charcoal Joe. |
Awards Note: | National Book Foundation Medalist |
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Genre: | Detective and mystery fiction. |
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- Baker & Taylor
Unlicensed private investigator-turned-hardboiled detective Easy Rawlins navigates sex clubs, the mafia and dangerous friends when he reluctantly accepts the racially charged case of a traumatized Vietnam War veteran in late-1960s Los Angeles. 40,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
After being approached by a shell-shocked Vietnam War veteran who claims to have gotten into a fight protecting a white woman from a black man, Easy embarks on an investigation that takes him from mountaintops to the desert, through South Central and into sex clubs and the homes of the fabulously wealthy, facing hippies, the mob, and old friends perhaps more dangerous than anyone else. - Grand Central Pub
"Master of craft and narrative" Walter Mosley returns with this crowning achievement in the Easy Rawlins saga, in which the iconic detective's loyalties are tested on the sun-soaked streets of Southern California (National Book Foundation)Â
It is 1969, and flames can be seen on the horizon, protest wafts like smoke though the thick air, and Easy Rawlins, the Black private detective whose small agency finally has its own office, gets a visit from a white Vietnam veteran. The young man comes to Easy with a story that makes little sense. He and his lover, a beautiful young woman, were attacked in a citrus grove at the city's outskirts. He may have killed a man, and the woman and his dog are now missing. Inclined to turn down what sounds like nothing but trouble, Easy takes the case when he realizes how damaged the young vet is from his war experiences'the bond between veterans superseding all other considerations.
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The veteran is not Easy's only unlooked-for trouble. Easy's adopted daughter Feather's white uncle shows up uninvited, raising questions and unsettling the life Easy has long forged for the now young woman. Where Feather sees a family reunion, Easy suspects something else, something that will break his heart.
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Blood Grove is a crackling, moody, and thrilling race through a California of hippies and tycoons, radicals and sociopaths, cops and grifters, both men and women. Easy will need the help of his friends'from the genius Jackson Blue to the dangerous Mouse Alexander, Fearless Jones, and Christmas Black'to make sense of a case that reveals the darkest impulses humans harbor.Â
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Blood Grove is a novel of vast scope and intimate insight, and a soulful call for justice by any means necessary. - Grand Central Pub
"Master of craft and narrative" Walter Mosley returns with this crowning achievement in the Easy Rawlins saga, in which the iconic detective's loyalties are tested on the sun-soaked streets of Southern California (National Book Foundation)Â
It is 1969, and flames can be seen on the horizon, protest wafts like smoke though the thick air, and Easy Rawlins, the Black private detective whose small agency finally has its own office, gets a visit from a white Vietnam veteran. The young man comes to Easy with a story that makes little sense. He and his lover, a beautiful young woman, were attacked in a citrus grove at the cityâs outskirts. He may have killed a man, and the woman and his dog are now missing. Inclined to turn down what sounds like nothing but trouble, Easy takes the case when he realizes how damaged the young vet is from his war experiencesâthe bond between veterans superseding all other considerations.
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The veteran is not Easyâs only unlooked-for trouble. Easyâs adopted daughter Featherâs white uncle shows up uninvited, raising questions and unsettling the life Easy has long forged for the now young woman. Where Feather sees a family reunion, Easy suspects something else, something that will break his heart.
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Blood Grove is a crackling, moody, and thrilling race through a California of hippies and tycoons, radicals and sociopaths, cops and grifters, both men and women. Easy will need the help of his friendsâfrom the genius Jackson Blue to the dangerous Mouse Alexander, Fearless Jones, and Christmas Blackâto make sense of a case that reveals the darkest impulses humans harbor.Â
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Blood Grove is a novel of vast scope and intimate insight, and a soulful call for justice by any means necessary.