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It starts like so many noir mysteries start: a beautiful woman walks into a PI’s office and tells him she’s afraid of her husband. In this case the husband is a billionaire who she thinks is having an affair and is tiring of her – and both his ex-wives died under mysterious circumstances when he tired of them. But is the woman who she says she is, and if she isn’t why is she lying about it? Times are hard, however, and the woman has plenty of money so Leonid McGill takes the case. If this sounds complicated, McGill is also asked to track down a missing man by a friend of his father’s, a crime lord no less, and this path leads him deeper than he expects. His friend and mentor has cancer, his favorite son is running a scam, his wife has a new much younger lover, his mistress seems to be cooling to him, and there’s a detective on his heels who would like to see him behind bars. Mosley is a writer who gets under the skins of his complex characters, brings New York vividly to life, and who does not shy away from complex situations and people. There’s a philosophical undernote to all his novels, in this case told in recollections of his father’s lessons and stories from his time in the ring. Mosley’s writing is intelligent and exciting and I am utterly addicted. --Angela M. |
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