Rose Gold

Zusatztext "You know Mosley will bring things to a satisfactory conclusion! so you can let the story fall away in favor of its rich social fabric! rendered in well-observed details of skin color! speech! dress and! of course! neighborhoods. This is the triumph of each Easy Rawlins storydocumenting this changing panorama of a city where the migration of Southern blacks! eager to claim it as their new world! is constantly remaking the city as it remakes them. Every Rawlins novel can be read on its own! but it's a far richer experience to read them in sequence and follow Easy's complex evolution as well as that of his ad hoc family and tight circle of friends. These are the folks who provide a fascinating set of roadside attractions as Easy's case rolls on." Los Angeles Times "When it comes to naming names! Walter Mosley knows no peer. A cop called Frisk! a guru who goes by Vandal! a boxer known as Hardcase Tommy Latour and a black militant with the excellent moniker of Most Grand all figure in Rose Gold ! Mosley's endlessly entertaining new Easy Rawlins mystery." The New York Times Book Review "Fans of Mosley's private investigator were grateful Rawlins survived! and for good reason: Mosley's writing gifts go well beyond the gumshoe genre. With Rawlins! he weaves in a tense racial element throughout! and raises the level of his achievement." Associated Press "Set in L.A. during the height of the Vietnam War! Mosley's impressive 13th Easy Rawlins mystery (after 2013's Little Green ) finds Roger Frisk! special assistant to the police chief! calling on Easy with a job... Easy's experiences and insights perfectly mirror the turbulent '60s." Publishers Weely! starred "Mosley has few peers when it comes to crafting sentences! and he's woven some beauties into this swift-moving yet philosophical story that does more for illustrating an iconic perioud than hours of documentary film could. This Easy Rawlins novel harks back to the great early days of the series." Booklist! starred "...The most quotable of all contemporary detectives stirs up enough trouble for scene after memorable scene." Kirkus Reviews Informationen zum Autor Walter Mosley Klappentext In the sixties era of black nationalism, political abductions, and epidemic police corruption, Easy's latest case will pull him-unremittingly and inevitably-into the darkest underbelly of Los Angeles. Rosemary Goldsmith, the daughter of a weapons manufacturer, has been kidnapped by a black revolutionary cell called Scorched Earth. Their leader, Uhuru Nolicé, is holding her for ransom and if he doesn't receive the money, weapons, and apology he demands, "Rose Gold" will die-horribly and publicly. So the authorities turn to Easy Rawlins, the one man who can cross the necessary lines to resolve this dangerous standoff and find Rose Gold before it's too late. 1 Back then, Moving Day in L.A. was a phantom holiday that occurred, for many Angelenos, every other month or so. In the 1950s and '60s, when the rent was dirt cheap, people moved to be closer to a new job, away from an old lover, or when it seemed that a fundamental change of life was in order. Sometimes the person moving would not only change the numbers on his or her door but also the name on the mailbox, the used car in the driveway, and even the style of clothes they donned to walk out and meet the day. Now and then the move was not merely aesthetic or convenient but necessary; like when a bill collector, lawyer, or the law itself was hot on the temporary tenant's trail. At a time like this the migrant leaseholder would make sure that the new domicile was inside the border of a different unincorporated town or municipality of L.A. County. That way the law offered few systems to track his whereabouts. A man could actua...

"You know Mosley will bring things to a satisfactory conclusion, so you can let the story fall away in favor of its rich social fabric, rendered in well-observed details of skin color, speech, dress and, of course, neighborhoods. This is the triumph of each Easy Rawlins story—documenting this changing panorama of a city where the migration of Southern blacks, eager to claim it as their new world, is constantly remaking the city as it remakes them. Every Rawlins novel can be read on its own, but it's a far richer experience to read them in sequence and follow Easy's complex evolution as well as that of his ad hoc family and tight circle of friends. These are the folks who provide a fascinating set of roadside attractions as Easy's case rolls on."
—Los Angeles Times

"When it comes to naming names, Walter Mosley knows no peer. A cop called Frisk, a guru who goes by Vandal, a boxer known as Hardcase Tommy Latour and a black militant with the excellent moniker of Most Grand all figure in Rose Gold, Mosley's endlessly entertaining new Easy Rawlins mystery."
—*The New York Times Book Review

• "Fans of Mosley's private investigator were grateful Rawlins survived, and for good reason: Mosley's writing gifts go well beyond the gumshoe genre. With Rawlins, he weaves in a tense racial element throughout, and raises the level of his achievement."
  —Associated Press

"Set in L.A. during the height of the Vietnam War, Mosley’s impressive 13th Easy Rawlins mystery (after 2013’s Little Green) finds Roger Frisk, special assistant to the police chief, calling on Easy with a job...  Easy’s experiences and insights perfectly mirror the turbulent ’60s."
—Publishers Weely, starred

"Mosley has few peers when it comes to crafting sentences, and he's woven some beauties into this swift-moving yet philosophical story that does more for illustrating an iconic perioud than hours of documentary film could. This Easy Rawlins novel harks back to the great early days of the series."
—Booklist, starred

"...The most quotable of all contemporary detectives stirs up enough trouble for scene after memorable scene."
—Kirkus Reviews

Autorentext

Walter Mosley

Klappentext

In the sixties era of black nationalism, political abductions, and epidemic police corruption, Easy's latest case will pull him-unremittingly and inevitably-into the darkest underbelly of Los Angeles.

Rosemary Goldsmith, the daughter of a weapons manufacturer, has been kidnapped by a black revolutionary cell called Scorched Earth. Their leader, Uhuru Nolicé, is holding her for ransom and if he doesn't receive the money, weapons, and apology he demands, "Rose Gold" will die-horribly and publicly. So the authorities turn to Easy Rawlins, the one man who can cross the necessary lines to resolve this dangerous standoff and find Rose Gold before it's too late.

Leseprobe
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Back then, Moving Day in L.A. was a phantom holiday that occurred, for many Angelenos, every other month or so. In the 1950s and ’60s, when the rent was dirt cheap, people moved to be closer to a new job, away from an old lover, or when it seemed that a fundamental change of life was in order. Sometimes the person moving would not only change the numbers on his or her door but also the name on the mailbox, the used car in the driveway, and even the style of clothes they donned to walk out and meet the day.

Now and then the move was not merely aesthetic or convenient but necessary; like when a bill collector, lawyer, or the law itself was hot on the temporary tenant’s trail. At a time like this the migrant leaseholder would make sure that the new domicile was inside the border of a different unincorporated town or municipality of L.A. County. That way the law offered few systems to track his whereabouts. A man could actually avoid dunning or even arrest by merely moving across the street.

In the case of a necessary move, the rental émigré would load up a truck in the middle of the night and go with n…