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A Red Death

A Red Death

Author(s): Walter Mosley

Location(s): Los Angeles

Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller

Era(s): 1950s

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 favour) 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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