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A red death

Walter Mosley
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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....

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20 editions · 3 languages
  • Paperback · English · 2004
    Serpent's Tail · 284 pages · 9781852427696
  • Audiobook · English · 2002
    A Red Death (Easy Rowlins Mysteries)
    Audio Renaissance · 9781559277198
  • Paperback · English · 1997
    Pocket · 256 pages · 9780671010065
  • Paperback · English · 1997
    A RED DEATH (Easy Rawlins Mysteries
    Washington Square Press · 272 pages · 9780671019846
  • Paperback · English · 1995
    Pan Macmillan · 9780330700306
  • Audiobook · English · 1993
    A Red Death (Easy Rowlins Mysteries)
    Audio Renaissance · 9781559272346
FictionPrivate investigatorsAfrican American menEasy Rawlins (Fictitious character)LiteraryMystery & DetectiveCalifornia, fictionLos angeles (calif.), fiction