Walter Mosley: Gone Fishin' (UK 2018)

From the Publisher:
In the beginning... there was Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins and Raymond "Mouse" Alexander, two young men setting out in life, hitting the road in a "borrowed" '36 Ford headed for Pariah, Texas. The volatile Mouse wants to retrieve money from his stepfather so he can marry his Etta Mae. But on their steamy bayou excursion, Mouse will choose murder as a way out, while Easy's past liaison with Etta Mae floats precariously in his memory. Easy and Mouse are coming of age -- and everything they ever knew about friendship and about themselves is coming apart at the seams...

Walter Mosley: Gone Fishin'. An Easy Rawlins Novel. Orion Books, ISBN 9781474608589 (July, 2018), eBook, 1.21 MB (ca. 208 p.), £8.99.

Walter Mosley: Gone Fishin' (USA 2002)

From the Publisher:
In the beginning... there was Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins and Raymond "Mouse" Alexander, two young men setting out in life, hitting the road in a "borrowed" '36 Ford headed for Pariah, Texas. The volatile Mouse wants to retrieve money from his stepfather so he can marry his Etta Mae. But on their steamy bayou excursion, Mouse will choose murder as a way out, while Easy's past liaison with Etta Mae floats precariously in his memory. Easy and Mouse are coming of age -- and everything they ever knew about friendship and about themselves is coming apart at the seams...

Walter Mosley: Gone Fishin'. An Easy Rawlins Novel. Washington Square Press, ISBN 0743451759 (September, 2002), 208 p., $14.00.

Walter Mosley: Gone Fishin' (UK 1998)

From the Publisher:
Houston, 1939. A 19-year-old Easy Rawlins and his friend, the dangerous Raymond 'Mouse' Alexander, are about to take the ride of a lifetime - into a mysterious bayou world of voodoo, sex, revenge and death that will both change and link their destinies for ever.

The first book Walter Mosley wrote, Gone Fishin' introduces us to the world of Easy and Mouse and shows us the basis of their friendship - quite literally a matter of life or death. Walter Mosley is a major writer of his time - the promise of genius is clear to see in Gone Fishin'.

Walter Mosley: Gone Fishin'. An Easy Rawlins Novel. Serpent's Tail, ISBN 1852425792 (May, 1998), 152 p., Hardback, £9.99.

Walter Mosley: Gone Fishin' (USA 1998)

From the Publisher:
"God bless the day that Walter Mosley created Easy Rawlins!" Carol See of The Washington Post Book World voices the fervor of fans who love the streetwise, accidental detective and his gritty, sexy, violent world. Now, Mosley "opens a treasured window into the past of a very good friend" (Booklist), stepping back to Houston in 1939, where Easy has y to get mixed up in the worst kind of business: other people's secrets.

GONE FISHIN
In the beginning, there was Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins and Raymond "Mouse Alexander -- two young men setting out in life, hitting the road in "borrowed" Ford headed for Pariah, Texas. The volatile Mouse wants to retrieve money from his stepfather so he can marry his EttaMae. But on their steamy bayou excursion, Mouse will choose murder as a way out, while Easy's past liaison with EttaMae floats precariously in his memory. Easy and Mouse are coming of age and everything they ever knew abou friendship and about themselves is coming apart at the seams...

Walter Mosley: Gone Fishin'. An Easy Rawlins Novel. Pocket Books, ISBN 0671010115 (February, 1998), 244 p., $6.50.

Walter Mosley: Gone Fishin' (UK 1997)

From the Publisher:
Houston, 1939. A nineteen-year-old Easy Rawlins and his friend, the dangerous Raymond 'Mouse' Alexander, are about to take the ride of a lifetime - into a mysterious bayou world of voodoo, sex, revenge and death that will both change and link their destinies for ever.

The first book Walter Mosley wrote, Gone Fishin' introduces us to the world of Easy and Mouse and shows us the basis of their friendship - quite literally a matter of life or death. Walter Mosley is a major writer of his time - the promise of genius is clear to see in Gone Fishin'.

Walter Mosley: Gone Fishin'. An Easy Rawlins Novel. Serpent's Tail, ISBN 1852426039 (June, 1997), 152 p., £5.99.

Walter Mosley: Gone Fishin' (USA 1997)

From the Publisher:
Critics and fans agree: there is magic and genius in the novels of Walter Moskey. The Wall Street Journal describes them as "at once exotic and believable, filled with memorable individuals and morally complex situations.

Mosley and his unforgetable characters, Ezekiel Easy Rawlins and Raymond Mouse Alexander, arrived on the scene in 1990 with the publication of the highly acclaimed Devil in a Blue Dress. With the enormous success of the four subsequent Easy Rawlins mysteries, Mouse and Easy are becoming two of America's most-wanted heros. An unparalleled intimacy with these characters keeps Mosley's fans addicted. They cannot get enough-demanding more magic and genius, and more Mouse and Easy. Mosley does not know how to refuse.

The setting: Houston, 1939. Easy and Mouse are young men just setting out in life. Easy has yet to develop his skill for unraveling the secrets of others, and Mouse has yet to kill his first man. All will soon change.

Although he's frightened that Mouse may know of his earlier liaison with EttaMae, nineteen-year-old Easy Rawlins agrees to drive his friend to Pariah, Texas. Traveling in a 1936 Ford Mouse has "borrowed," the two begin a journey to retrieve money from Mouse's stepfather, daddyReese - money the volatile Mouse wants to use to begin his marriage to EttaMae. They are soon engulfed in a shrouded bayou world of voodoo, sex, revenge, and death that changes their lives and entwines their destinies.

Easy and Mouse come of age in Gone Fishin as they are compelled to examine their friendship and other relationships that have shaped their lives. Both young men take a closer look at their love and memories of their mothers and are forced to deal with the fathers in their lives -- Easy yearning for the one he hardly knew, Mouse vengeful over the one he was left. Out of these memories and interactions, each must somehow forge his own sense of manhood.

Walter Mosley: Gone Fishin'. An Easy Rawlins Novel. Black Classic Press, ISBN 1574780255 (February, 1997), 244 p., $22.00.