"The Last Days of Louisiana Redblends paradox, hyperbole, understatement
and signifyin' so expertlyyou can almost hear a droll black voice
telling the tales as you readit." - The New Republic
When Papa LaBas (private eye, noonday HooDoo, and hero of Reed's Mumbo
Jumbo) comes to Berkeley, California, to investigate the mysterious
death of Ed Yellings, owner of the Solid Gumbo Works, he finds himself
fighting the rising tide of violence propagated by Louisiana Red and
those militant opportunists, the Moochers.
A HooDoo detective story and a comprehensive satire on the explosive
politics of the '60s, The Last Days of Louisiana Red exposes the
hypocrisy of contemporary American culture and race politics.