A Red Death (Trade Paperback)
by:
Walter Mosley (author)
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...
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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....
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781451612509 (1451612508)
Publish date: October 2002
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Pages no: 312
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
Cultural,
American,
Historical Fiction,
African American,
Mystery,
Detective,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Noir
Series: Easy Rawlins (#2)
It seems that the IRS are wondering why Easy Rawlings seems to own property. He has never appeared to have had enough income to justify his buying the property. An IRS agent, Reginald Lawrence, is threatening to throw Easy in jail muy pronto, unless Easy can come up with proper documentation, docume...
A big thank you to Moonlight Reader for yet another fun, inventive BookLikes game! I had a wonderful time, while also advancing -- though with decidedly fewer new reads than I'd origianlly been planning -- my two main reading goals for this year (classic crime fiction and books written by women). ...
A Red Death takes place during the era of the Red Scare, and Easy Rawlins finds himself caught between a rock and a hard place as the government tries to root out communist sympathizers. A Red Death had a plot that was a little less twisty than the other books that I've read by Walter Mosley, and...
Mosley takes the traditional hard-boiled detective mystery and gives it a refreshing spin by spotlighting African-American communities. His lead, Easy Rawlins, is a Louisiana/Texas transplant now working in L.A. as a janitor, maintaining the building he surreptitiously owns. As any decent detective...
It's Mosley. Always a good read.
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