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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'