The facets that have made Mosley’s crime writing so influential and iconic are on clear display in his latest novel EVERY MAN A KING, which sees the return of ex-NYPD cop Joe King Oliver from Mosley’s Edgar Award-winning 2018 novel DOWN THE RIVER UNTO THE SEA.

Reluctantly roped into helping a nonagenarian billionaire investigate whether an alt-right poster boy is being wrongly imprisoned, Oliver steps into a minefield including white nationalists, private prisons, fuel fraud, the Russian mob, and a spiderweb of relationships and betrayals. Mosley deftly sets the hook and reels us through the pages, exploring themes of incarceration, inequality, and monetised hatred alongside some wonderfully vivid and unusual characters.

[From a large feature interview profile of Walter Mosley published in the New Zealand Listener]

Hardboiled king! Was happy to include this book in my latest “Thrills and Chills” round-up for Zoomer magazine, highlighting winter’s best suspense and mystery reads. (see mini-review at link)

Walter Mosley is one of America's finest authors and Every Man a King is no exception.
This is the second in the King series with Joe King Oliver the protagonist.

This time he takes on the task of investigating a white supremacy group. He is supposed to be helping his client - despite the unsavory nature of the group - but he discovers some deep, ugly secrets that put his life in danger.

You will be glad you read this - and any Mosley book. I find him a politically savvy author who always addresses the intersectionality of the world, illuminates people who balance the good/bad dichotomy and who live in the margins.