This time around, Easy is hired by Mouse, his buddy and one hell of a scary dude, to help out a guy called Charcoal Joe, and Joe is “what you’d call a mastermind. By which we mean to say, Mosley’s Easy Rawlins novels are complex and Charcoal Joe is no exception in that regard either. We also know that over the course of the last twenty plus years (Mosley’s first Easy Rawlins outing, Devil in a Blue Dress, was published in 1995) Easy Rawlins has built himself quite the network – and Mosley expects you to keep up, as he should, he ain’t writing for fools. Easy Rawlins has a family, of sorts, an adopted daughter, a girlfriend, an adopted son (who we left making his way to Alaska in the last book, Rose Gold). Easy Rawlins is a black man in a very racist America so we know he’ll be confronted by that. Easy Rawlins is a detective, for one thing, so we’ll know that there will be a case he has to investigate. Walter Mosley is about as prolific as Stephen King and this being the 14th Easy Rawlins mystery, we have an idea, don’t we, of what we’ll get.
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