Known to Evil

A Leonid McGill Mystery

De: Walter Mosley

Narrado por: Mirron Willis

Walter Mosley and his new hero, Leonid McGill, are back in the new New York Times best-selling mystery series that's already being hailed as a classic of contemporary noir.

Leonid McGill - the protagonist introduced in The Long Fall, the book that returned Walter Mosley to best-seller lists nationwide - is still fighting to stick to his reformed ways while the world around him pulls him in every other direction. He has split up with his girlfriend, Aura, because his new self won't let him leave his wife - but then Aura's new boyfriend starts angling to get Leonid kicked out of his prime, top-of-the­skyscraper office space.

Meanwhile, one of his sons seems to have found true love - but the girl has a shady past that's all of sudden threatening the whole McGill family. And his other son, the charming rogue Twilliam, is doing nothing but enabling the crisis.

Most ominously of all, Alfonse Rinaldo, the mysterious power-behind- the-throne at City Hall, the fixer who seems to control every little thing that happens in New York City, has a problem that even he can't fix - and he's come to Leonid for help.

It seems a young woman has disappeared, leaving murder in her wake, and it means everything to Rinaldo to track her down. But he won't tell McGill his motives, which doesn't quite square with the new company policy - but turning down Rinaldo is almost impossible to even contemplate.

Known to Evil delivers on all the promise of the characters and story lines introduced in The Long Fall, and then some. It careens fast and deep into gritty, glittery contemporary Manhattan, making the city pulse in a whole new way, and it firmly establishes Leonid McGill as one of the mystery world's most iconic, charismatic leading men.

©2010 Walter Mosley (P)2010 Penguin

Awesome Book

This is an Awesome Book and Great series. I truly enjoyed the intrigue and suspense of the story line. Great job Walter Mosley.

Excellent litarary production

I truly really, really loved this profound auditory performance profusely. Thank you for your gift.

Audible books

Walter Mosley is my all time favorite author. The different narrators he uses makes them more interesting.

The EYES have it...BRAVO!

I am completely in Love...with Walter Mosely, Leonid McGill and Mirron Willis. I would like to thank the director and producer for such an excellent execution of work.

The constant mention of Leonid's physical stature and combative abilities, exudes strength and creates this super hero complex. He makes me feel his toughness and invincibility with his awareness of self.

Mosley captures the individuality of his supporting characters through the description of their eyes.

The eyes are the windows to the soul.
“The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness.” Matthew 6:22&23

Great Narrator, but....

His accents are HORRIBLE, quite comical actually. I've listened to quite a few books that he has narrated and every time he comes to a accent, I cringe.

Interesting Mosley turn, reader disappointing

I am a big Mosley fan (read, not heard). However, with regard to the audio: First, get a grip on lousy accents - if you cannot do them (hello...NY at the front of the list, since all the main characters are NY'ers you would think we could have had a basic effort to emulate. Not so). Most importantly with this book - the accents are abominable and un-ingnorable!!! The reader does not seem to understand McGill (but many of us won't...that is certainly intended) I am enjoying this book. I am not enjoying the reader, but Walter Mosley is always worthwhile, so if you only- listen do so, if you read, please read his books.

To Know and to Be Known by Evil. Wow!

This is another action-packed, twist filled, multi-layered page-turner. The characters are so real with many dimensions, depth, weakness, strength, and purpose. The details of this world supply everything the reader needs to suspend disbelief and follow Leonid to places with people you pray your paths never cross. But the story pulls you in and you cannot look away. Loved it.

Gumshoe Tale With A Twist

Mosley has done it again. Leonid McGill is a complex character who you've ant to root for even if he doesn't really deserve it.

Very unique PI

I am a big Walter Mosley fan. Leonid McGill is a modern day PI and former fixer, with a background in boxing and a very interesting family life. He's been married for decades but he and his wife have cheated the entire marriage, resulting in 2 children who are not biologically his and one child who is.
The dialog and narration of the story is very literary with a lot of references to other works and some socialist viewpoints (through flashbacks of LT's father). In places I thought the writing was too flowery or the references too obscure - kind of rolled my eyes a few times.
The narrator is perfect for the MC, IMO couldn't be better. However, all the other characters' voices and accents are just butchered. The scandanavian wife with a light accent is horrible, all the Russian and South American characters have nasally voices with long e for every vowel. It makes it hard to take them seriously, much less find them frightening.
The "mystery" of the story, about a missing young woman, is resolved nicely if you suspend disbelief a little bit. The secondary plot, about LT's sons' involvement with a dangerous girl, is a little distracting from the main storyline but it's OK. Overall I think the main character and the world-building is excellent and I'll continue the series.

Another great one

I truly enjoy all of Mosely's books and will continue listening or reading them until I finish them all.