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A Red Death by Walter Mosley- June Meetup

Jun 5
Thu 6:30 PM
Location
Virgil's Real Barbecue

152 W44th Street, Between 6th Avenue and Broadway
New York, NY 10036
212 921-9494

Who attended?
Estimated attendance:  9  people attended.
4.75

Our selection for this month is the second book in the Easy Rawlins series. Rawlins is considered one of the most memorable mystery characters ever created. Mosley, a gifted writer, has won acclaim for the character development, setting snapshots, and realistic dialogue this series has to offer.

According to BarnesandNoble.com:
It's 1953, a time when Red-baiting was official policy, and racial tensions boiled. Easy Rawlins is in deep trouble. A corrupt, racist IRS agent is breathing down his neck about some unpaid taxes. His only out: cut a deal with the FBI to infiltrate the First African Baptist Church and spy on a former World War II resistance fighter suspected of stealing some top secret government plans.

But the IRS isn't Easy's only problem. His life becomes even more complicated and dangerous when his old flame EttaMae Harris shows up with her murderous husband, Easy's best friend, Raymond "Mouse" Alexander, hard on her heels. And then killings begin, and Easy finds himself playing the role of betrayed and betrayer - and the prime suspect.

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Who attended?

    • dee
      “ Mosley's character study of Easy Rawlings was more compeling than the plot itself and this is what kept me reading.! I look forward to reading more of Mosley's work. ”
    • “ Premi, I really love your group. Every member is awesome. I always get wait to the next meeting. You are such a classy lady and a pleasure to know. I am so happy that you organized this book group. I just need to find one other book club in manhattan that likes to read non fiction and fiction books, etc. But I want a group just like your groupl to enroll in. See you next month. ”
    • “ An interesting book, although very difficult to get absorbed in. The portrayal of the southern blacks and their culture seemed true to life and the relationships between black and white of that era certainly reflects other things that I have read. The "red menace" was unconvincing, although I am familiar with the history of the times. The author was unable to convince me that it was more than a plot device to create a story. ”