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A red death

Walter Mosley

1991245 pagesabout 4–6 hours
1991
first published
  • 1991Norton · 284 pages · ENGISBN 9780393029987
  • 1993Thorndike Press · 362 pages · ENGISBN 9781560547235
  • 2002Washington Square Press · 312 pages · ENGISBN 9780743451765
  • 2007W.F. Howes · 328 pages · ENGISBN 9781846328510
  • 1992Pocket · ENGISBN 9780671749897
  • 2002Audio Renaissance · ENGISBN 9781559277198
  • 1997Tandem Library · 245 pages · ENGISBN 9781417651399
  • 2004Serpent's Tail · 284 pagesISBN 9781852427696

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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