Synopses & Reviews
Mild-mannered Paris Minton is delivered a pile of trouble when Fearless Jones shows up with a simple request: help find a beautiful woman's husband. Lending a hand gets him hit upside the head, hogtied, kidnapped, and threatened with a gun the size of a cannon. Now he's wondering whom he should fear more: the people he's looking for or the people he's working for. Tangled up with cops, rival millionaires, several corpses, and one of L.A.'s wealthiest women, Paris Minton is in a corner-and not even his invincible friend Fearless can save him.
Review
"[A] fittingly Chandleresque tale that features...a consistently taut, poetic tone that reminds you why the best mystery fiction qualifies as art....Connecting all the plot's dots is a dauntingly byzantine endeavor, but Fear's visceral moments are so plentiful that the question of whodunit feels almost irrelevant. (Grade: A-)" Tom Sinclair, Entertainment Weekly
Review
"The author depicts 1950s Los Angeles with his usual unerring accuracy, but a somewhat different dynamic drives his heroes....While Paris possesses a narrative voice that's more literate and middle-class than that of the street-smart Easy, it should still resonate with Mosley's legions of fans." Publishers Weekly
Review
"Fear Itself is infused with Mosley's typical thoughtfulness and telling details, although it's not quite as successful as his previous mysteries....After a slow beginning, the ending just misses being great....Not Mosley's best, but still plenty good." Keir Graff, Booklist
Synopsis
Written with the voice and vision that have made Mosley one of the most entertaining writers in America, Fear Itself marks the return of a master at the top of his form. Unabridged 6 CDs.
About the Author
Walter Mosley is the author of the bestselling Easy Rawlins series of mysteries, the novel R.L.'s Dream, and the story collection Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, for which he received the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. He was born in Los Angeles and has been at various times in his life a potter, a computer programmer, and a poet. His books have been translated into twenty languages. He lives in New York.