SOURCE: "Down and Out in the City of Angels," in Newsweek, Vol. CXVI, No. 2, July 9, 1990, p. 65.
In the following review, Jones finds that Mosley compensates for occasionally stiff prose and an overly complicated plot with his keen eye for detail, his "lowdown humor," and his development of the character of Easy Rawlins.
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