Bad Boy Brawly Brown by
Walter Mosley
pbk out October 02
(Serpent's Tail)
at £12
Mosley's latest Easy Rawlins novel takes us to back to Los Angeles in the 1960s
where Easy is looking for Brawly Brown. The young man has run away from home
and has joined Civil Rights group The Clan of The First Men, who reject white
leadership and laws. When Easy stumbles upon a corpse, he finds himself suspected
of murder. Mosley powerfully conveys life in an era of great political and social
unrest and illuminates the history of the black community and their struggle for
equality. Easy's responsibility for his two adopted children, his guilt at the death of
his friend Mouse, and his unique take on the world he tries to navigate, give a
rewarding complexity and depth to the novel. Fresh, authentic and utterly engaging.
M.E.N. 19.12.02
(
Cath Staincliffe
author of the popular Sal Kilkenny mysteries set on the mean streets of Manchester)
