General Information
===================
 Title:                  The Long Fall
 Author:                 Walter Mosley
 Read By:                Mirron Willis
 Copyright:              2009
 Audiobook Copyright:    2009
 Genre:                  Fiction
 Publisher:              Books On Tape
 Series Name:            Leonid McGill
 Position in Series:     01
 Abridged:               No

Original Media Information
==========================
 Media:                  DL
 Number:                 7

File Information
================
 Number of MP3s:         7
 Total Duration:         8:49
 Total MP3 Size:         242.34
 Ripped By:              NMR
 Ripped With:            Easy CD-DA Extractor
 Encoded With:           LAME 3.97
 Encoded At:             CBR 64 kbit/s 44100 Hz Mono
 ID3 Tags:               Set, v2.3

Posting
=======
 Reposting Rules:        
 --------------
No reposts - use the pars.  Direct requests for fills to the attention 
of chiguai

Book Description
================
Amazon.com Review
Amazon Exclusive: Walter Mosley on Leonid McGill 
My new detective series about the bad-guy-turned-good, Leonid McGill, 
has been a long time coming. As many of you know I cut my writing teeth 
on the Easy Rawlins series. Those novels are concerned with a time in 
L.A. (and America) when life was simple, black and white so to speak. 
Easy was an invisible soldier in an undeclared war where survival meant 
breaking the rules, and the laws, of a nation where inequality was the 
standard and class was a tattoo indelibly wrought on its citizens’ skins. 

Leonid McGill, on the other hand, lives in the modern world. Rather 
than being a victim, he has spent his entire life as a victimizer working 
for professional criminals and other miscreants. He’s done jobs for 
the mob and bent businessmen looking to cut their losses; he’s robbed 
Peter to pay Paul and then turned in Paul for tax evasion. 

In brief – Leonid McGill has not been a good man. 

But Leonid has gotten as good as he’s given. Abandoned by his union 
organizing father at the age of twelve, Leonid watched his mother die 
of a broken heart within the next year. He’s gone from orphanage to 
foster home to the streets – fighting hard and never taking a backward 
step. He trained to be a boxer but found the ring of life to be a more 
suitable war. 

Leonid is married with three children (though only one of them is his 
by blood). He and his wife have a relationship of sorts but there is 
little love in that bond. One gets the feeling that the only reason 
he hasn’t left this loveless union is that he just doesn’t know how 
to back down in a fight. 

New York is not only McGill’s home but also the atmosphere he needs 
to survive. The city is his constitution and his nation. And so one 
day when he wakes up to realize that he has been on the wrong path for 
all of his fifty-odd years, Leonid does not abandon his home. Instead 
he decides to change direction against all the wrong that he’s done. 
Leonid is a man looking for redemption among the people he’s wronged 
in the city that he has betrayed. 

This challenge will be the hardest battle the aging P.I. has ever taken 
on. The police have a lieutenant whose only assignment is bringing Leonid 
down. The mob has its hooks into Leonid, refusing to accept his resolve 
to go straight. His favorite teenage son Twill (the product of one his 
wife’s many affairs) is a loveable, and loving, sociopath who needs 
his father to run interference for the complex and brilliant troubles 
he gets into. 

To say the least: Leonid is not your everyday detective. He is plagued 
by the deeds and victims of his criminal past and is therefore uncertain 
about the future. He has found love but holds back because of his hollow 
marriage. He is offered many jobs but often finds that the work itself 
unravels his vow to go straight. 

Leonid’s human body and flawed past makes him a microcosm of America 
at a time when we are trying to turn the tide of history. He’s a hard-boiled 
hero in harder-still times; a six to one underdog in the most important 
fight of his life – or ours. 

Easy Rawlins lived in my father’s world and the world of my father’s, 
and my own, people. Leonid McGill, however, lives in a world writ large. 
In Leonid’s America the truth is never only skin deep. And so to get 
at the underlying reality you definitely have to shed some blood. 

Leonid is ready to bleed for what he now knows is right. He is a hero 
of the first order because he fights on with no promise, or even an 
inkling, of victory. 

