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The Long Fall
Walter Mosley
The widely praised New York Times bestseller, and
Mosley’s first new series since his acclaimed Easy
Rawlins novels...
His name is etched on the door of his Manhattan office:
LEONID McGILL , PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR. It’s a name that
takes a little explaining, but he’s used to it.
“Daddy was a communist and great-great- Granddaddy was
a slave master from Scotland. You know, the black
man’s family tree is mostly root. Whatever you see
aboveground is only a hint at the real story.”
Ex-boxer, hard drinker, in a business that trades mostly in
cash and favors: McGill’s an old-school P.I. working a
city that’s gotten fancy all around him. Fancy or not,
he has always managed to get by—keep a roof over the
head of his wife and kids, and still manage a little fun on
the side—mostly because he’s never been above
taking a shady job for a quick buck. But like the city
itself, McGill is turning over a new leaf, “decided to
go from crooked to slightly bent.”
New York City in the twenty-first century is a city full of
secrets—and still a place that reacts when you know
where to poke and which string to pull. That’s exactly
the kind of thing Leonid McGill knows how to do. As soon as
The Long Fall begins, with McGill calling in old markers and
greasing NYPD palms to unearth some seemingly harmless
information for a high-paying client, he learns that even in
this cleaned-up city, his commitment to the straight and
narrow is going to be constantly tested.
Read an Excerpt
(The First Leonid McGill Mystery)
NAL Trade, February 2010
ISBN-10: 0451230256 ISBN-13: 9780451230256 368 pages Trade Size $14.00
Also by Walter Mosley:
When the Thrill Is Gone, January 2012
Known to Evil, February 2011
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