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by: Walter Mosley
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780316734592
ISBN: 0316734594
Label: Little, Brown and Company
Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: October 10, 2007
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Sales Rank: 218967
Studio: Little, Brown and Company
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Easy Rawlins, L.A.'s most reluctant detective, comes home one day to find Easter, the daughter of his friend Chrismas Black, left on his doorstep. Easy knows that this could only mean that the ex-marine Black is probably dead, or will be soon. Easter's appearance is only the beginning, as Easy is immersed in a sea of problems. The love of his life is marrying another man and his friend Mouse is wanted for the murder of a father of 12. As he's searching for a clue to Christmas Black's whereabouts, two suspicious MPs hire him to find his friend Black on behalf of the U.S. Army. Easy's investigation brings him to Faith Laneer, a blonde woman with a dark past. As Easy begins to put the pieces together, he realizes that Black's dissappearance has its roots in Vietnam, and that Faith might be in a world of danger.
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Rating:  - Mosley Keeps Getting Better
Walter Mosley is a strong writer with a sense of humor. This book is the latest Easy Rowlins novel and the best one yet. It is easy to settle slowing into the grips of a Mosley novel. Suddenly one realizes you are trapped and do not want to put it down. I practically read this one right through. Mystery readers and those interested in L.A. in the 70's will be delighted with the novel. Keep writing Mosley!
Rating: - Easily Remorseful
Easy Rawlins, has a broken heart.
Wait....that doesn't quite do it justice.
Easy Rawlins is completely devastated, lamenting the loss of the one woman that seemed to bring stability to the crazy, mixed up world in which he finds himself.
Walter Mosley slides into his storytelling like a threadbare housecoat that looks like the devil...but feels like heaven. This time, its California, 1969...post Watts Riots but pre-understanding and acceptance.
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Rating:  - What happened to Easy?
What happened to the Easy Rawlins I knew and loved? Those were my thoughts as I read the latest from Walter Mosley "Blonde Faith". It was a big disappointment for me as I expected Easy to kick the bad guys where it hurts in the name of justice or at least to go out in a blaze of glory. Instead the entire book was about the once bold Easy Rawlins wallowing in self-pity about his lost love Bonnie. There is very little action to speak of as the two most "dangerous men" Easy has ever known, Christmas Black ... Read More
Rating: - Too Much Racism
I have thoroughly enjoyed all the Easy Rawlins novels up until this one. The basic story was weak and the entire book was filled with more "all the troubles of the black American male can be blamed on the white American male" nonsense. I learned a lot about the "black experience" by reading the previous novels and felt great empathy for the black Americans as portrayed by Mr. Mosley. This volume is filled with the usual rhetoric one expects from Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson.
If this is the ... Read More
Rating: - YOU KNOW IT DON'T COME EASY
I've read the entire Easy Rawlins series. The writing has always been superb and the characters richly drawn. Mosely never lets you down and neither does Easy and Blonde Faith.
But you know it don't come easy letting go, and knowing that Blonde Faith might, could, possibly spell the end of one of the best written characters in american literature, it was a really tough read. I didn't want it to end the way I knew it had to. I didn't want to say goodbye to a character I've come to love, admire ... Read More
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