A Red Death: An Easy Rawlins Novel (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780743451765)

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....

Author: Walter Mosley
ISBN-10: 0743451767
ISBN-13: 9780743451765
Publisher: Atria Books
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2002
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.26h x 5.27w x 0.86d