Rose Gold, Walter Mosley
Rose Gold, Walter Mosley
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Rose Gold
An Easy Rawlins Mystery

Author: Walter Mosley

Narrator: JD Jackson

Unabridged: 10 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/23/2014

Synopsis

Rose Gold is two colors, one woman, and a big headache.

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. If they don't receive the money, weapons, and apology they demand, "Rose Gold" will die—horribly and publicly. 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. 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. 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.

About The Author

WALTER MOSLEY is the author of more than forty-two books, most notably twelve Easy Rawlins mysteries, the first of which, Devil in a Blue Dress, was made into an acclaimed film starring Denzel Washington. Always Outnumbered was an HBO film starring Laurence Fishburne, adapted from his first Socrates Fortlow novel. He is the winner of numerous awards, including an O. Henry Award, a Grammy Award, and PEN America's Lifetime Achievement Award. A Los Angeles native and graduate of Goddard College, he holds an MFA from CCNY and now lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David on September 06, 2016

If it ain’t broke, don’t try to fix it. The very idea that Walter Mosley has been exploring the world of protagonist Ezekiel Rawlins for the past quarter century without losing steam is a true wonder. The fact that these stories are based decades in the past, and still manage to maintain a tangible......more

Goodreads review by Richard on February 13, 2015

Easy Rawlins needs money. Again. This guy can't get a break. Sometimes I wish that this series would just end where Easy acquires a bunch of money, sends Feather off to a good school overseas, retires from running the streets, settles down on farmland out in Ventura somewhere with Bonnie and tend cr......more

Goodreads review by Monica **can't read fast enough** on June 11, 2019

This series just makes me happy. I am now almost caught up in the series with only one more story to go before I have to join everyone else waiting with baited breath for the newest Easy Rawlins story. As I've said before and will undoubtedly say many times more-Easy is one of my all time favorite c......more

Goodreads review by Cheryl on February 03, 2023

Book 13 Walter Mosley has done it again. He turns a crime mystery into the most smoothest, engaging and detailed stories I have ever read. Easy and mouse are my everything in this series. It's amazing how all the characters give you life. The personal relationships, the business relationships, the po......more

Goodreads review by Jemir on November 04, 2014

No one can play those that underestimate him (and many do) like a game of chess the way Easy Rawlins does. Walter Mosley's creation returns in this story set in the 1960's where protests against the vietnam war and other aspects of the counter-culture movement grab attention and headlines. In the mid......more

Quotes

"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

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