(June 5)įorecast: With a 20-city author tour and major advertising, Mosley's first thriller since 1996'sĪ Little Yellow Dog is sure to generate lots of interest and sales. One sly reference tells the reader we're still in the same world and time inhabited by Easy Rawlins, and that Fearless and Mouse are equally 'bad.' But Fearless is also a knight-errant and hopefully destined for further adventures as fine as this one. For the black characters it's a desperate struggle to stay alive in a white world where the deck is stacked. The novel rips along with a hunt for the girl and a race among competing factions to find a missing bond that's the key to a fortune.

He's a man of both principle and action with an innate sense of justice-and as his name makes clear, he's afraid of nothing. A former soldier, Jones is a riveting new creation. Walter Mosley Fearless Jones (2001), introducing timorous bookseller Paris Minton and his roustabout sidekick, the titular Jones. Then the beautiful Elana Love enters his store and brings with her more trouble than Paris has ever seen-enough trouble that Paris knows his only hope is his friend Fearless Jones. Narrator Paris Minton is an appealing figure-an easygoing black man for whom the written word is salvation and whose nameless used bookstore in Watts is paradise. One had dark hair and the other sported freckles.

I hadnt called them, of course a black man has to think twice before calling the cops in Watts. He's in so much trouble he has no choice but to get his friend, Fearless Jones, out of jail to help him. Fearless Jones by Walter Mosley Chapter One MY USED-BOOK STORE had been open for just about a month when the police showed up. The result is a violent, heroic and classic piece of noir fiction. When Paris Minton meets a beautiful new woman, before he knows it he has been beaten up, slept with, shot at, robbed, and his bookstore burned to the ground. Staying in L.A., and in the past (1950s), we also have the Fearless Jones series, which starts with a. Abandoning the voice of his premier creation, Easy Rawlins, Mosley mines a new shaft of 1950s Los Angeles with a hero who combines the principles of Easy with the deadliness of Ray 'Mouse' Alexander. Walter Mosley has written more than 50 books.