A Red Death: An Easy Rawlins Novel

Author(s)/Editor(s): Mosley, Walter - -

Binding: QUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKS
YearMonthDay of Publication: 20021001
Standardized Book Category: African American & Black - Mystery & Detective
Language: English
Page Count: 00320

Publisher Marketing: A "fascinating and vividly rendered" (The Wall Street Journal) mystery featuring one of crime fiction's greatest protagonists--private investigator Easy Rawlins--as he agrees to a dangerous surveillance job.

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....