![]() Following the meandering plot is beside the point once Mosley starts bringing on his familiar characters for Easy to chat up. No furies in his brain, no fires in his gut, just an unquenchable curiosity about people and their personal dramas. “We examine every action for potential threats, insults and cheats.” That’s why it’s such a joy to hang around with Easy, who is. ![]() “Life was like a bruise for us,” Easy says about a nasty flare-up in an otherwise peaceful barber shop. It’s May 1968, nearly three years after the Watts riots, but black neighborhoods are still simmering with rage. ![]() ![]() In passing this job along to Easy, Mouse is doing a favor of his own for Charcoal Joe, a criminal legend who wants Easy to exonerate a young black university professor accused of murder by finding the real killer of two white men in a beach house in Malibu. And he’s talking his way through another case in CHARCOAL JOE (Doubleday, $26.95), purely as a favor to his fearsome friend, Mouse, who’s “mostly evil and definitely a killer,” but dangerously attractive for all that. ![]() It’s the seductive drawl and lowdown dirty laugh of Walter Mosley’s mellow private eye, Easy Rawlins. ![]()
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