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When a boxer-turned-revolutionary kidnaps the daughter of a weapons manufacturer and threatens to publicly execute her in exchange for a lucrative ransom, Easy Rawlins is tapped by the LAPD to make a difficult border crossing to navigate an ensuing standoff.

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Main Author: Mosley, Walter (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Doubleday, 2014.
Series:Mosley, Walter. Easy Rawlins mystery ; 13.
Subjects:
Rawlins, Easy (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
African American men > Fiction.
Private investigators > California > Los Angeles > Fiction.
Hostages > Fiction.
Boxers (Sports) > Fiction.
Missing persons > Investigation > Fiction.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Fiction.
Mystery fiction > California.
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Summary:When a boxer-turned-revolutionary kidnaps the daughter of a weapons manufacturer and threatens to publicly execute her in exchange for a lucrative ransom, Easy Rawlins is tapped by the LAPD to make a difficult border crossing to navigate an ensuing standoff.
Physical Description:308 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN:9780385535977 (hardcover)
038553597X (hardcover)
9780307949790 (pbk.)
0307949796 (pbk.)
Author Notes:Walter Mosley was born in Los Angeles, California on January 12, 1952. He graduated from Johnson State College in Vermont. His first book, Devil in a Blue Dress, was published in 1990, won a John Creasy Award for best first novel, and was made into a motion picture starring Denzel Washington in 1995. He is the author of the Easy Rawlins Mystery series, the Leonid McGill Mystery series, and the Fearless Jones series. His other works include Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, 47, Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, and Twelve Steps toward Political Revelation. He has received numerous awards, including an O. Henry Award, the Carl Brandon Society Parallax Award, and PEN America's Lifetime Achievement Award.

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