A red death

By Walter Mosley

Subjects: African americans, fiction, Large type books, African American men, FICTION, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Literary, Mystery & Detective, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, Rawlins, easy (fictitious character), fiction, California, fiction, Fiction, Easy Rawlins (Fictitious character), Fiction, thrillers, general, African American businesspeople, Private investigators

Description: 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....