A Red Death
by Mosley, Walter
It's 1953, a time when
Red-baiting was official policy, and racial tensions boiled. Easy
Rawlins is in deep trouble. A corrupt, racist IRS agent is breathing
down his neck about some unpaid taxes. His only out: cut a deal with the
FBI to infiltrate the First African Baptist Church and spy on a former
World War II resistance fighter suspected of stealing some top secret
government plans.
But the IRS isn't Easy's only problem. His life becomes even more
complicated and dangerous when his old flame EttaMae Harris shows up
with her murderous husband, Easy's best friend, Raymond "Mouse"
Alexander, hard on her heels. And then killings begin, and Easy finds
himself playing the role of betrayed and betrayer - and the prime
suspect.
Red-baiting was official policy, and racial tensions boiled. Easy
Rawlins is in deep trouble. A corrupt, racist IRS agent is breathing
down his neck about some unpaid taxes. His only out: cut a deal with the
FBI to infiltrate the First African Baptist Church and spy on a former
World War II resistance fighter suspected of stealing some top secret
government plans.
But the IRS isn't Easy's only problem. His life becomes even more
complicated and dangerous when his old flame EttaMae Harris shows up
with her murderous husband, Easy's best friend, Raymond "Mouse"
Alexander, hard on her heels. And then killings begin, and Easy finds
himself playing the role of betrayed and betrayer - and the prime
suspect.