Walter Mosley is the best-selling author of Little Scarlet, Fear Itself, and Bad Boy Brawley Brown; the acclaimed Easy Rawlins series of mysteries; and other works of fiction and nonfiction in nearly every genre. His latest book and first foray into young adult literature concerns 47, a young slave boy living under the watchful eye of a brutal slave master. 47's life seems doomed until he meets Tall John, a mysterious run-away slave who draws 47 into a struggle for his own liberation.