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Here's the ObserverMysteries review of the book:
Leonid McGill, the "formerly bent" private eye, tries to right a past wrong by un-framing a woman he helped frame in a robbery and starting her off with a little nest egg to get back on her feet after prison. Unfortunately, she's in the sights of some acquisitive types who still believe she was in on the robbery and knows where the money is, so Leonid has inadvertently put her in danger.
Walter Mosley gives Leonid a ponderous voice and blends generous doses of sex, world-weary cynicism and a tarnished brand of honor to create the New York that Leonid inhabits.
Mosley, whose other series have captured the black experience in earlier incarnations, now says through Leonid: "Race is no longer the primary defining factor of American life ...
"Racism is a luxury in a world where resources are scarce, where economic competition is an armed sport, in a world where even the atmosphere is plotting against you. In an arena like that racism is more a halftime entertainment, a favorite sitcom when the day is done."
Characters and story bear out this philosophy.
