A red death

Walter Mosley

About this book

It's 1953 in Red-baiting, blacklisting Los Angeles, a moral tar pit ready to swallow Easy Rawlins. Easy is out of "the hurting business" and into the housing (and favor) business when a racist IRS agent nails him for tax evasion. Special Agent Darryl T. Craxton, FBI, offers to bail him out if he agrees to infiltrate the First American Baptist Church and spy on alleged communist organizer Chaim Wenzler. That's when the murders begin....

Subjects

  • african american businesspeople
  • african american men
  • african americans, fiction
  • california, fiction
  • easy rawlins (fictitious character)
  • fiction
  • fiction, mystery & detective, general
  • fiction, thrillers, general
  • large type books
  • literary
  • los angeles (calif.), fiction
  • mystery & detective
  • private investigators
  • rawlins, easy (fictitious character), fiction