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Product Details
Washington Square Press, October 2002
Trade Paperback, 320 pages
ISBN-10: 0743451767
ISBN-13: 9780743451765
Description
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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Browse Inside Red DeathNew York Newsday
The thriller or detective story, raised to a higher level...action, suspense, a well-crafted plot...fast-moving [and] enjoyable.
The Indianapolis News
This is a master at work: we would be well advised to seek everything Walter Mosley writes.
Mirabella
A Red Death is a straightforward, cleanly nasty treat. The writing is funky and knowing, with a no-fools cast.
Los Angeles Times Book Review
Mosley...is here to stay and not to be missed.
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