All I Did Was Shoot My Man by Walter Mosley
An electric new novel starring PI Leonid McGill from the imitable Walter Mosley, creator of the Easy Rawlins series
Leonid McGill is defiantly old schoolHe uses his big heart and a lifetime of boxing skills to save a woman from the grasp of mobsters desperate to reclaim the money she stole from them. Thing is, she didn't. McGill framed her SUNDAY EXPRESS Like all Mosley's work 'All I Did...' is written with rhythm and an utterly compelling veracity, as PI McGill reopens an old case in which he was implicated in some less than legal activities. There is real depth to Mosley's characters and a clarity of thought that is refreshing in a sea of overwritten contemporaries -- Doug Johnstone THE BIG ISSUE This follows in the tradition of Chester Himes... If you like your crime snappy, hard-boiled and razor-edged, Walter Mosley is for you -- Victoria Clark THE LADY Everything about Walter Mosley's new book is a combination of exquisite elegance and street toughness, from the title - All I Did Was Shoot My Man - to the understated heartbreak of the last line -- Mat Coward MORNING STAR a decidedly unconventional private eye novel... Parallels can be drawn with John Banville's Freddie Montgomery or Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley... Elegant, laconic, complex and thought-provoking, All I Did Was Shoot My Man is one of the most intriguing crime fiction novels of the year so far IRISH INDEPENDENT
Walter Mosley, recipient of the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award, is the author of 36 books, among them the bestselling Easy Rawlins mystery series including A LITTLE YELLOW DOG and DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS. His books have been translated into twenty-one languages and have sold more than three million copies to date. He lives in New York.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780297866763 |
| ISBN 10 | 0297866761 |
| Title | All I Did Was Shoot My Man |
| Author | Walter Mosley |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 2012-03-08 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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