![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is the triumph ofĮach Easy Rawlins story-documenting this changing panorama of a city where the ![]() Things to a satisfactory conclusion, so you can let the story fall away inįavor of its rich social fabric, rendered in well-observed details of skinĬolor, speech, dress, and, of course, neighborhoods. Rose Gold continues his ongoing and unique achievement in combining the mystery/PI genre form with a rich social history of postwar Los Angeles-and not just the black parts of that sprawling city. With twelve previous adventures since 1990, Easy Rawlins is one of the small handful of private eyes in contemporary crime fiction who can be called immortal. So the FBI, the State Department, and the LAPD turn to Easy Rawlins, the one man who can cross the necessary borders to resolve this dangerous standoff. If they don't receive the money, weapons, and apology they demand, "Rose Gold" will die-horribly and publicly. In this new mystery set in the Patty Hearst era of radical black nationalism and political abductions, a black ex-boxer self-named Uhuru Nolica, the leader of a revolutionary cell called Scorched Earth, has kidnapped Rosemary Goldsmith, the daughter of a weapons manufacturer, from her dorm at UC Santa Barbara. Rose Gold is two colors, one woman, and a big headache. ![]()
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