![]() At the end of one chapter, he says about himself, “I sat there trying to will myself up the evolutionary ladder from man to superman. ![]() The new protagonist, Paris Minton, is less heroic, less willing and less willful than Easy ever was, and he is certainly less tough. ![]() It’s as though Mosley has taken the elements of his popular Easy Rawlins mystery series, placed them in a burlap bag and shaken. They are black, and they have to watch their step. They have ecstatic sex with questionable women and decent sex with decent women. Characters eat in diners, run through alleys and get beaten insensate by steel-fisted thugs. The setting is once again Los Angeles, the morality once again ambiguous. ![]() Walter Mosley’s “Fearless Jones” feels familiar, like a sleeveless white cotton T-shirt you wear when you’re solving a mystery you didn’t want any part of in the first place. By Walter Mosley, Little Brown and Co., $24.95, 320 pp. ![]()
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