![]() ![]() Race relations that do not seem to have improved much in the ensuing five decades, the civil rights movement notwithstanding. The depth comes from Mosley’s portrayal, from a black man’s perspective, of race relations in Los Angeles in the late sixties. It mesmerized me to the degree that I read it again the next day-to make sure I hadn’t missed anything and to savor Mosley’s fine writing and storytelling that much longer. I pretty much read it in one day (Christmas-best present I’ve given myself in a long time). Joe tells Easy he will pay well to see this young man exonerated, but seeing as how white cops-more inclined toward a quick close than seeking justice-found Seymour standing over the dead bodies, that exoneration requires puppetry that only Easy can manage.Ĭharcoal Joe has a depth and literary quality lacking in most books of the mystery genre, yet the pace never slows below a fast trot, and quickly returns to its former gallop. Joe, for reasons unclear at the outset, wants a young black man-Seymour (top of his class in physics at Stanford)-cleared of charges that he murdered two white men. ![]() I love this hypnotic book, the 14th in Walter Mosley’s Easy Rawlins series-best book I’ve read in ages.Įasy’s childhood friend Mouse introduces him to Rufus Tyler, a man everyone calls Charcoal Joe. ![]()
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