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Problems of conscience for errant black investigator-extraordinary Easy Rawlins, plus mortal apprehension when he plans to vanish with his murderous friend Mouse's woman; grave and unusual problems too with the Inland Revenue, FBI and his neighbourhood church. Sketchier than the recent hit Devil in a Blue Dress but Easy is pure gold. (Kirkus UK)
Watts, 1953. Easy Rawlins, fresh from his Edgar-nominated debut (Devil in a Blue Dress), reluctantly agrees to spy on Communist union-organizer Chaim Wenzler for Red-baiting FBI agent Darryl Craxton in order to get IRS agent Reginald Lawrence - hot on his trail for back taxes on his off-the-books apartment buildings - off his back. But nobody (as Easy knows all too well) ever gets off a black man's back; and long before Poinsettia Jackson, one of Easy's hard-case tenants, is found hanging from a strap in the apartment she's stopped paying for and before Chaim Wenzler's work leads Easy to the African Migration movement, the First African Church, and Reverend Towne and Tania Lee are shot in fiagrante delicto - inevitably to be followed by Wenzler himself - Easy realizes that the two federal men are playing him off against each other. Who pulled the trigger on Wenzler and the others? As in Devil in a Blue Dress, Mosley's plot is so tangled it hardly matters. But the laconic poetry of Easy's voice floats through a central situation much more original and compelling than before. This time Mosley earns the acclaim his first novel received. (Kirkus Reviews) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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‘Mosley’s second novel confirms him as one of crime writing’s finds of the 1990s’ --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Problems of conscience for errant black investigator-extraordinary Easy Rawlins, plus mortal apprehension when he plans to vanish with his murderous friend Mouse's woman; grave and unusual problems too with the Inland Revenue, FBI and his neighbourhood church. Sketchier than the recent hit Devil in a Blue Dress but Easy is pure gold. (Kirkus UK)
Watts, 1953. Easy Rawlins, fresh from his Edgar-nominated debut (Devil in a Blue Dress), reluctantly agrees to spy on Communist union-organizer Chaim Wenzler for Red-baiting FBI agent Darryl Craxton in order to get IRS agent Reginald Lawrence - hot on his trail for back taxes on his off-the-books apartment buildings - off his back. But nobody (as Easy knows all too well) ever gets off a black man's back; and long before Poinsettia Jackson, one of Easy's hard-case tenants, is found hanging from a strap in the apartment she's stopped paying for and before Chaim Wenzler's work leads Easy to the African Migration movement, the First African Church, and Reverend Towne and Tania Lee are shot in fiagrante delicto - inevitably to be followed by Wenzler himself - Easy realizes that the two federal men are playing him off against each other. Who pulled the trigger on Wenzler and the others? As in Devil in a Blue Dress, Mosley's plot is so tangled it hardly matters. But the laconic poetry of Easy's voice floats through a central situation much more original and compelling than before. This time Mosley earns the acclaim his first novel received. (Kirkus Reviews) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Telegraph
‘Mosley’s second novel confirms him as one of crime writing’s finds of the 1990s’ --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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