Fearless Jones
by Mosley, Walter
- Used
- Fine
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0316592382
- ISBN 13
- 9780316592383
- Seller
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Hicksville, New York, United States
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Synopsis
Paris Minton is minding his own business--a small used bookstore of which he is the proud proprietor--when a beautiful woman named Elana Love walks in and asks a few questions. Within the next twenty-four hours, Paris has been beaten up, made love to, shot at, and robbed, and his bookstore has been burned to the ground. He's in so much trouble he has no choice but to get his friend Fearless Jones out of jail to help. Fearless Jones is an army veteran, a man who is proud of his accomplishments during World War II, and refuses to step into the background now that the war is over. Violence dogs Fearless's every step, and Paris has tried to keep his distance. But there's no friend like the one you need. The two set out to find the elusive Elana Love, and every step leads them deeper into a bewildering vortex of money and betrayal. Their questions bring out a ruthless and racist cop, a gang of vicious ex-cons, and an elderly Jewish woman who is as determined to help the two friends as others are toharm them. These two Black men in 1950s Los Angeles have few rights, little money, and no recourse under attack. But they have their friends, th
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- Bookseller
- Dead End Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0316592382
- Title
- Fearless Jones
- Author
- Mosley, Walter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 0316592382
- ISBN 13
- 9780316592383
- Publisher
- New York, NY, U.S.A. : Little, Brown & Company, 2001
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- This edition first published
- 2001
- Keywords
- LOS ANGELES CALIF FICTION AFRO AMERICANS HISTORICAL MYSTERY DETECTIVE GENERAL WORLD WAR 1939 1945 0316592382
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