A Red Death

by Walter Mosley

Paperback, 284 pages

Published May 19, 2004 by Serpent's Tail.

ISBN:: 978-1-85242-769-6

(6 reviews)

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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Jon Nixon reviewed A Red Death by Walter Mosley (Easy Rawlins (2))

Review of 'A Red Death' on 'Storygraph'

4 stars

Not as good as “Devil in a Blue Dress” but still worth reading. I felt it started well, lost it’s way in the middle, and picked up nicely towards the end.