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About The Book 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.
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Walter Mosley · This novel takes place in the Los Angeles of the early 1950s, a time of institutionalised racial segregation and paranoia about Communism. · The ...
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A fatal car accident that was anything but accidental has jarred loose a stash of methamphetamines and cash that's become the center of a battle between the ...
Easy ends up friendless, loverless, nearly hopeless. He has won his reputation and his money back, but in the process sacrificed nearly everything (other than ...
It presents period issues of race relations and mores as the unemployed Rawlins is hired to find a white woman who frequents jazz clubs in Black districts.
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This particular novel explores the paranoia of the anti-Communist movement. In spite of occasional missteps, the flawed, likable, real hero is a good person.
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When people connected to both his IRS charge and his FBI case start dying, it seems he's swapped going to jail for non-payment of tax to going for murder. To ...
In A Red Death, it is now 1953, the period of McCarthyism. Easy has used the money he made in Devil in a Blue Dress to buy rental properties, which he owns ...
Apr 16, 2021 · This story, set at the height of the second Red Scare, deals with the growing paranoia about the idea that Communist spys and sympathizers could ...
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A “fascinating and vividly rendered” (The Wall Street Journal) mystery featuring one of crime fiction's greatest protagonists—private investigator Easy Rawlins— ...