![]() Easy's voice, both in Walter Mosley's spicy and authentic first-person narration and in Michael Boating's excellent reading of it, is appealing and humane. He has been living under the radar in a very racist society and now must find a way to deal with the ugly and violent and petty machinations of powerful white people in order to save his house and his life. In addition to the historical Southern Californian setting, the most interesting part of the novel involves race, most noir detective stories involving white detective heroes, but this one featuring an African American war veteran, a strong and brave and dignified man who has killed white men (German soldiers) in combat, but who nonetheless finds himself tongue-tied when questioned by haughty white American men. The recently fired Easy Rawlins, in need of money to pay the mortgage on his modest Watts house with its avocado and fruit trees, accepts a seemingly innocuous job to look for a beautiful white woman and then becomes caught up in a tangled web of desire, greed, racism, and violence. ![]() ![]() This is a solid, concise, well-written and well-read noir detective story set in Los Angeles shortly after World War II. Beware of Mysterious Sexy Women with Big Suitcases ![]()
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