![]() Jackson brings them all to life with admirable versatility. ![]() As, usual things are not quite what they first seem, and some might say that the story is a little formulaic, but the vividness of the characters and the descriptions of the city and. Here it includes pugilists, a group of black militants known as Scorched Earth, and the Patty Hearst–like Rosemary Goldsmith. Rose Gold is the 13th in the series, and Easy is asked by the LAPD to use his knowledge of the LA criminal underworld to find a missing millionaires daughter. A long list of vivid characters spring from Mosley’s mind in each novel. For Easy’s LAPD pal Melvin Suggs, whose career has been blighted by his love for a lawbreaker, Jackson replaces the usual police truculence with a boozy haplessness. Reader Jackson’s cool, unruffled rendition matches the tone of Rawlins’s first-person narration, including the character’s cynical knowledge of the way things work in the racially divided city. ![]() ![]() Chief among them is the search for a boxer-turned-political-protestor, last seen in the company of the missing and presumed-kidnapped daughter of munitions baron Foster Goldsmith. Set in 1967 Los Angeles, with the Vietnam War dominating the news, the latest book featuring Mosley’s beloved Easy Rawlins finds the private eye interrupted from settling in to his upscale new home by an increasing number of intriguing missing-person investigations. ![]()
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