![]() Jones, who takes employment wherever he can, and only when necessary, happens to be working for Mitchell, "selling counterfeit Texan watermelons." Because he has quite the eye for the ladies, he's agreed to help the desperate and attractive Hartman. It seems that Leora Hartman, a young, pretty wife and mother, has asked Jones to find her missing husband, Kit Mitchell. ![]() Fearless strides in on the sleepy, jumpy Paris and spins his latest tale of involved trouble. In Fear Itself, the second novel in the Fearless Jones series by author Walter Mosley (the first, Fearless Jones, came out in 2001), Paris is awakened in his "illegal loft space above the bookstore" by Jones at 2:30 in the morning. As surely as Tuesday follows Monday, however, it isn't long before Tristan "Fearless" Jones is knocking on Paris' door and implicating them both in a sordid mess. With the constant threat of violence, robbery or just plain rousting by bigoted white LAPD cops, Paris prefers to stay in his store on Florence Avenue and spend most days reading. Bookstore owner Paris Minton is no exception. The Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts in 1955 is a tough place to live for most African Americans. ![]()
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