![]() ![]() Easy Rawlins is still Mosley's main man, but Fearless Jones gives every appearance of possessing similar longevity. The crime aspects here are delivered with total panache, but Mosley would never be happy without adding that level of socio-political commentary he is so adept at, and the place of black men in 1950s LA (with few rights and little money) is a potent theme. ![]() As Jones painstakingly investigates the woman's past, a very dark mystery begins to unravel. ![]() A beautiful woman is involved, and the beleaguered Minton asks for the aid of his friend, the resourceful Fearless Jones. Minton is savagely beaten up and his store burned to the ground for mysterious reasons. And this is probably because the central character here is not so much the eponymous Fearless Jones as Paris Minton, the owner of a small second-hand bookstore. But can Jones match Mosley's engaging long-term hero Easy Rawlins? On the evidence of this first book, the answer is resoundingly in the affirmative, even if the new series takes a little time to establish the new protagonist. Walter Mosley's Fearless Jones inaugurates a new crime series set in 1950s Los Angeles. ![]()
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