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Fear Itself

by Walter Mosley · 2003

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Mild-mannered Paris Minton is delivered a pile of trouble when Fearless Jones shows up with a simple request: help find a beautiful woman's husband. Lending a hand gets him hit upside the head, hogtied, kidnapped, and threatened with a gun the size of a cannon. Now he's wondering whom he should fear more: the people he's looking for or the people he's working for. Tangled up with cops, rival millionaires, several corpses, and one of L.A.'s wealthiest women, Paris Minton is in a corner—and not even his invincible friend Fearless can save him.

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mysterymysteryMore like thisLess of thiscrimecrimeMore like thisLess of thisdetectivedetectiveMore like thisLess of thisprivate investigatorprivate investigatorMore like thisLess of thishistorical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of this
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African AmericanAfrican AmericanMore like thisLess of this
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CaliforniaCaliforniaMore like thisLess of thisLos AngelesLos AngelesMore like thisLess of thisAfricaAfricaMore like thisLess of this
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adult

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