![]() In the USA before Dr King has come, Easy has “spent five years with white men, and women, from Africa to Italy, through Paris, and into the Fatherland itself.” “I ate with them and slept with them,” Easy will tell you, “and I killed enough blue-eyed young men to know that they were just as afraid to die as I.” I didn’t know there was anyone who could fire off words like these on this side of the 1950s. His hero, Easy Rawlins, is as tough as any of them. He offers everything there is to love in the classic hardboiled stories of Sam Spade, Phillip Marlowe, and Mike Hammer. Mosley’s novel is a tale of a “black” man in Chandler’s LA. I’m a lover of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Mickey Spillane, and when I read Mosley’s debut, I was walking down those same gritty streets that I love but with a guide who knew tricks the old masters didn’t. I have read Devil in a Blue Dress which is his very first novel. I haven’t read Walter Mosley’s latest novel, Everyman a King. ![]()
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