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A Red Death

(1991)
(The second book in the Easy Rawlins series)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
1992 Macavity Award for Best Novel (nominee)

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 the favor) business when a racist IRS agent nails him for tax evasion. FBI Special Agent Darryl T. Craxton offers to bail him out if he agrees to infiltrate the First African Baptist Church and spy on alleged communist union organizer Chaim Wenzler. That's when the murders begin...


Genre: Mystery

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