A "fascinating and vividly rendered" (The Wall Street Journal)
mystery featuring one of crime fiction's greatest protagonists--private
investigator Easy Rawlins--as he agrees to a dangerous surveillance
job.
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....