Easy Rawlins becomes caught up in murder and the racial tensions of 1960s Los Angeles when he agrees to find Brawly Brown, the teenage son of a long-time friend who has left home and is running with the radical Urban Revolutionary Party.
Presents seven stories featuring Ezekiel Rawlins, a man who has succeeded in leaving the street life behind, but who has gained a reputation for being the one to call when the law cannot be trusted.
Easy Rawlins becomes caught up in murder and the racial tensions of 1960s Los Angeles when he agrees to find Brawly Brown, the teenage son of a long-time friend who has left home and is running with the radical Urban Revolutionary Party.
Provides practical advice and strategies for completing a novel in one year; discussing the elements of fiction, how to begin, rewriting and editing, genre, and other related topics.
Unemployed African-American veteran Easy Rawlins accepts an offer of some detective work in 1948 from white gangster Dewitt Albright, who wants Easy to scour the jazz joints of Los Angeles in an effort to locate blonde femme fatale Daphne Monet.
The lives of two stepbrothers, one from a life of privilege and the other in a life of hardship, explore the true meaning of fortune when they are reunited after years being apart.
Presents twenty works of American short fiction selected by guest editor Walter Mosley as the best of 2002, and includes contributors' notes, a list of one hundred additional stories, and editorial addresses for American and Canadian magazines.
