There is a lot of brutality is this story about a missing woman, but Mosley measures this with precision and he balances it with some of the best descriptive prose you can find: “One old man was walking down the block with the most dignified limp I’d ever seen. Even if I could have moved quickly enough to keep from being shot, what was the value of killing a white man for belittling me? I’d killed white men before in my life and that hadn’t changed a thing.” But I had to remember-I was out in the middle of nowhere, a black spot against a white backdrop. If I hadn’t been able to tell by his accent I sure could have from the liberties he took with my age. The trouble he finds himself in is almost continuous:
He can’t turn down the money offered to locate this woman, “Black Betty.” The trail is unclear and it takes him through much of SoCal (and much of his past life). Now he is on the verge of losing what he has worked so hard for.Įasy Rawlins is hired to look for Elizabeth Eady…someone out of his past. I wanted it - violently." He has always been willing to “pay it forward” to help those around him. I’d done every kind of low job, and I wanted my success.
Since I was a child I worked the daylight hours sweeping, gardening, delivering. But the same world was being rocked almost daily by underground nuclear explosions and the threat of war.” The Los Angeles of the 50s and 60s was growing at a rapid rate, and much of that growth was from the South from Alabama to Texas, both Black and White.Įasy’s view of his struggle: “Deep inside I know that the world wasn’t going to let me be an upright businessman. About our new young Irish president and Martin Luther King about how the world was changing and a black man in America had the chance to be a man for the first time in hundreds of years. Here is what Easy says about this period of time: “I tried to think of better things.
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