| A Red Death: An Easy Rawlins Novel Contributor(s): Mosley, Walter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0743451767 ISBN-13: 9780743451765 Publisher: Atria Books OUR PRICE: $17.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2002 Annotation: Now an independent operative in Watts, Easy Rawlin is caught in a crunch between a vengeful IRS agent in search of his cash and an obsessed FBI man in search of Reds. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | African American - Mystery & Detective - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2003265081 |
| Series: Easy Rawlins Mystery |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 5.27" W x 8.26" (0.60 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Locality - Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA - Cultural Region - Southern California - Geographic Orientation - California - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Cultural Region - West Coast - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A "fascinating and vividly rendered" (The Wall Street Journal) mystery featuring one of crime fiction's greatest protagonists--private investigator Easy Rawlins--as he agrees to a dangerous surveillance job. 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.... |
Contributor Bio(s): Mosley, Walter: - Walter Mosley is the New York Times bestselling author of five Easy Rawlins mysteries: Devil in A Blue Dress, A Red Death, White Butterfly, Black Betty, and A Little Yellow Dog; three non-mystery novels, Blue Light, Gone Fishin', and R. L.'s Dream; two collections of stories featuring Socrates Fortlow, Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, for which he received the Anisfield Wolf Award, and which was an HBO movie; and a nonfiction book, Workin' On The Chain Gang. Mosley is also the author of the Leonid McGill, and Fearless Jones mystery series, The Tempest Tales and Six Easy Pieces. He is a former president of the Mystery Writers of America, a founder of the PEN American Center Open Book Committee, and is on the board of directors of the National Book Awards. A native of Los Angeles, he now lives in New York City. |