312 pages
English language
Published Dec. 11, 2002 by Washington Square Press.
4 stars
(3 reviews)
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....
Subjects
- Rawlins, Easy (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Private investigators -- California -- Los Angeles -- Fiction
- African American men -- Fiction
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction