Known to Evil: A Leonid McGill Mystery (Leonid Mcgill Mystery 2)

Known to Evil: A Leonid McGill Mystery (Leonid Mcgill Mystery 2)

by WalterMosley (Author)

Synopsis

A mystery caller sends Leonid McGill to an uptown address 'just to check a girl's okay'. There's no explanation - just a name - Angelique - a reward, and the chilling knowledge that he's working for Rinaldo Alphonse, the most feared man in New York. What LT finds is a crime scene. A girl lies with her face blown off, her assassin felled by a knife. But the dead girl isn't the one LT was sent to find, and her killer's injuries don't make sense. The next day Alphonse comes calling: LT must find Angelique before the assassin's assassin tracks her down. Alphonse isn't the only one who wants a bit of LT's time - the NYPD, finding his appearance too convenient, think they can finally put away the thorn in their side. But why do so many people want a piece of the apparently normal, clean-living Angelique? And why is the mafia coming after McGill, linking his sons - shy Dmitri and streetwise Twill - to the escape of a sex trafficked Belarussian girl? As both plots career towards a thrilling finale, McGill must put his street know-how and book of lethal contacts to the test, while haunted by the re-appearance of a face from his crooked past and his wife Katrina's continued infidelities.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Edition: First UK Edition
Publisher: W&N
Published: 18 Mar 2010

ISBN 10: 0297860461
ISBN 13: 9780297860464

Media Reviews
Above all he demonstrates once again his wizardry with dialogue, matched only by that other great master Elmore Leonard. -- MARCEL BERLINS THE TIMES - 27.3.10 The voice ot the narrator - low, intense and soaked in melancholy - is what hooks us into this second mystery by Walter Mosley to feature Leonid McGill. THE SCOTSMAN - 10.04.10 Superior crime writing from one of the best in the business. BIG ISSUE - 29.03.10
Author Bio
WALTER MOSLEY, recipient of the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award, is the author of 25 books, among them the bestselling Easy Rawlins mystery series. Born in Los Angeles, he currently lives in New York.