Walter Mosley Cinnamon Kiss, Warner Books: NY, 2005, 313 pp., 2005b, 1966
"I parked my low-rider car across the street from an innocuous-looking place on Ozone, less than a block away from the Santa Monica beach. It was a little after seven and there was some activity on the street. There were men in suits and old women with dogs on leashes, bicyclers showing off their calves in shorts, and bums shaking the sand from their clothes. Almost everyone was white but they didn't seem to mind me sitting there. They didn't call for the police." p. 277