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A Red Death : An Easy Rawlins Novel
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A Red Death
Author(s): Walter Mosley
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....
Review(s):
"The thriller or detective story, raised to a higher level...action, suspense, a well-crafted plot...fast-moving [and] enjoyable."
"This is a master at work: we would be well advised to seek everything Walter Mosley writes."
"A Red Death is a straightforward, cleanly nasty treat. The writing is funky and knowing, with a no-fools cast."
"Mosley...is here to stay and not to be missed."
ISBN: 9780743451765
Author(s): Walter Mosley
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....
Review(s):
"The thriller or detective story, raised to a higher level...action, suspense, a well-crafted plot...fast-moving [and] enjoyable."
"This is a master at work: we would be well advised to seek everything Walter Mosley writes."
"A Red Death is a straightforward, cleanly nasty treat. The writing is funky and knowing, with a no-fools cast."
"Mosley...is here to stay and not to be missed."
ISBN: 9780743451765