Watts is smoldering in ruins -- and the cops are on Easy Rawlin's doorstep. Easy expects the worst, as usual. But, incredibly, they're asking for his help. A redheaded woman known as Little Scarlet had sheltered a man during the riots. Witnesses later saw him fleeing her building; not long after, Little Scarlet was found viciously murdered. Now, with his old friend Mouse at his side, Easy follows the case's single clue across Los Angeles. The missing man is the key, but he's only the beginning.
Rosemary Goldsmith, the daughter of a weapons manufacturer, has been kidnapped by a black revolutionary cell called Scorched Earth. Their leader, Uhuru Nolica, is holding her for ransom and if he doesn t receive the money, weapons, and apology he demands, Rose Gold will die horribly and publicly. So the authorities turn to Easy Rawlins, the one man who can cross the necessary lines to resolve this dangerous standoff and find Rose Gold before it s too late. In the sixties era of black nationalism, political abductions, and epidemic police corruption, Easy s investigation will pull him unremittingly and inevitably into the darkest underbelly of Los Angeles."
Leonid McGill can't say no to the beautiful woman who walks into his office with a stack of cash and a story. She's married to a rich art collector. Now she fears for her life. Leonid knows better than to believe her, but he can't afford to turn her away, even if he knows this woman's tale will bring him straight to death's door.
Features three complete cases for Easy Rawlins - African-American war veteran turned private investigator - who was born on the bad side of 1950s Los Angeles. This anthology contains: "Devil in a Blue Dress"; "A Red Death"; and "White Butterfly".
With the love of a good woman and two children, Easy Rawlins has put his past life of trading favours behind him. Following the loss of his best friend and sidekick, Mouse, he wants to set an example for his children by earning an honest living. But trouble has a way of finding Easy Rawlins.
Easy Rawlins is out of the investigation business and as far away from crime as a black man can be in 1960s Los Angeles. But living around desperate men means life gets complicated sometimes. When his old friend asks for Easy's help, he finds he can't refuse. Easy is asked to trace a young man - 'Brawly Brown' - who has joined a radical and secretive black nationalist group, rejecting white leadership and laws. His first day on the case, Easy comes face-to-face with a corpse, and before he knows it he is a murder suspect and in the middle of a police raid. Brawly Brown is clearly the kind of trouble most folks try to avoid. It takes everything Easy has just to stay alive as he explores a world filled with betrayals and predators like he never Imagined.
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