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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-100393029980
ISBN-139780393029987
eBay Product ID (ePID)315369
Product Key Features
Book TitleRed Death
Number of Pages1 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1991
TopicAfrican American / General, Mystery & Detective / General
GenreFiction
AuthorWalter Mosley
Book SeriesEasy Rawlins Mysteries Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight18.4 Oz
Item Length8.6 in
Item Width5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN90-023660
Dewey Edition21
TitleLeadingA
Series Volume Number0
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisWalter Mosley's debut novel, Devil in a Blue Dress, introduced readers to Easy Rawlins. Now an independent operative in Watts, Easy's caught in a crunch between a vengeful IRS agent in search of his cash and an obsessed FBI man in search of Reds (Communist sympathizers). The action is swift in this novel described by the Los Angeles Times as "Astonishing . . "., Easy is out of the hurting business and into the housing (and the favor) business when a racist IRS agent nails him for tax evasion. FBI Special Agent Darryl T. Craxton offers to bail him out if he agrees to infiltrate the First African Baptist Church and spy on alleged communist union organizer Chaim Wenzler. That's when the murders begin..., 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 the favor) business when a racist IRS agent nails him for tax evasion. FBI Special Agent Darryl T. Craxton offers to bail him out if he agrees to infiltrate the First African Baptist Church and spy on alleged communist union organizer Chaim Wenzler. That's when the murders begin...