?I?m in trouble, Paris.? Paris Minton has heard these words before. They mean only one thing: that his neck is on the line too. So when they are uttered by his lowlife cousin Ulysses S. Grant, Paris keeps the door to his bookshop firmly closed. With family like Ulysses - ?Useless? to everyone except his mother - who needs enemies? But trouble always finds an open window, and before long Paris is paying a call on his long-time friend and bodyguard, Fearless Jones. Criss-crossing the complicated landscape of 1950s Los Angeles, where a wrong look can get a black man killed, Paris and Fearless find desperate women, secret lives, and more than one dead body along the way. Walter Mosley serves up another taut mystery plot humming with brilliant characterisations, sharp dialogue and dark humour - a combination as fresh and zesty as ever.
- ISBN10 044661789X
- ISBN13 9780446617895
- Publish Date 1 September 2007 (first published 1 January 2006)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Grand Central Publishing
- Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
- Pages 352
- Language English