Title: A red death
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....
Subjects: Fiction, Private investigators, African American men, Easy Rawlins (Fictitious character), Literary, Mystery & Detective, California, fiction, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, Rawlins, easy (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, African americans, fiction, Large type books, African American businesspeople, Fiction, thrillers, general
Places: Los Angeles (Calif.), California, Los Angeles, Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)
People: Easy Rawlins
Time periods: 1953