Free Jack Strong: A Story of Life After Life by Walter Mosley

PRAISE FOR THE WRITING OF WALTER MOSLEY
    Blue Light
    New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year
and Los Angeles Times Bestseller
    “A writer whose work transcends category and qualifies as serious literature.”
    — Time
    “More evidence that Mosley is the Gogol of the African-American working class—the chronicler par excellence of the tragic and the absurd.”
    — Vibe
    “ Blue Light takes him on a mind-bending trip into the brave new world of science fiction, and Mosley proves that good writing is good writing, regardless of genre.”
    — USA Today
    “A quirky mix of action, up-to-date speculative tropes and New Age spiritualism poured into a quasi-mystery mold, Blue Light offers plenty of thrills, both visceral and ideational.”
    — San Francisco Chronicle
    “[Mosley] makes words sing on the page … a read that’s shiny-new but a surprisingly comfortable fit.”
    — The Austin Chronicle
    “Both classic sci-fi and classic Mosley … Mosley once again uses his flawless literary technique to examine the question of racial identity and what it means to humanity.”
    — The Source
    “ Blue Light is a new venture into ‘science fiction’ … In Blue Light, Mosley details meticulously the grainy, disoriented insanity of being high on something-or-other in San Francisco during the Vietnam War years. He describes with mesmerizing clarity the hallucinatory twilight world of nightmares and euphoria inhabited by losers and drifters who move from one fix to another.”
    — The Times (London)
    “Mosley has created an enthralling sci-fi story while managing once again a close observation of Americans of another era interacting among racial and class lines.”
    — Mosaic
    “[Mosley] strives mightily for mythic resonance here, and he achieves it often enough to give the novel undeniable power.”
    — Locus
    “Mosley himself is not only a skilled writer, but an uncommonly intelligent and thoughtful one … [ Blue Light ] is compellingly written … a story that transcends novelty.”
    —Space.com
    “ Blue Light provides the social history, character studies, humanity, and vivid violence for which Mosley is justly praised … Well-drawn characters as well … ordinary people made extraordinary, and Mosley knows how to make them believable and sympathetic … A success.”
    — Denver Rocky Mountain News
    “A beautifully written, deeply spiritual novel. Recommended.”
    — Library Journal
    Futureland
    “Beneath the high-tech gadgetry and noir atmosphere, the stories here are thoughtful explorations of race and identity … Futureland is populated by assassins and revolutionaries, and it is filled with suffering. Yet Mosley also peoples his stories with working stiffs and scrappy fighters. Against a bleak landscape, their resilient spirits feel like rays of hope.”
    — The New York Times Book Review
    “A truly formidable stylist and thinker … The more I think of it, the more I admire Futureland. ”
    — The San Diego U-T
    “If you think the next century’s going to be all phaser guns and pointy-eared babes, then Futureland is the harsh dose of alternate reality you need … this is sci-fi without the sugarcoating, a suggestion that the years to come will be less ‘Live long and prosper,’ more ‘Live fast, die young.’”
    —Maxim
    “A vivid, exciting and, on the whole, well-executed take on cyberpunk that measures up to the work done 15 years ago by the Gibson and Bruce Sterling.”
    — Kirkus Reviews

Jack Strong
A Story of Life after Life
Walter Mosley

Jack Strong
    Nigger tried to tell me he wasn’t into something back there behind Willie’s house on a Wednesday, noon. Me and Tyler and Beckwith Smith kicked holy shit outta that coon. Left him so beat that he’ll never walk inta no white man’s yard ever again—that is if he can walk at all.
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    I never meant to do it. Never meant to betray our vows. But then Winston came over to me across the living room. He pressed his body up