Even as the obstacles grow higher and the bodies begin to pile up. If you already like Walter Mosley, then youll probably like Black Betty. Easy’s questions aren’t being answers and he realizes the case might be more complex than he thought.Įasy won’t stop at anything to find Black Betty. Set in 1948, the novel introduces Ezekiel Easy Porterhouse Rawlins as an. But why exactly this white man wants to find her isn’t clear. Short on money and pulled by the strong desire to see Black Betty again, he accepts the job. But he personally knows the woman the white man wants to find-the notorious Black Betty, an ebony siren whose talent for all things rich and male took her from Houston's Fifth Ward to Beverly Hills. So when a white man approaches Easy with a wad of cash to find a missing person, Easy would is tempted to simply throw the money back in his sleazy face.

Despite the ongoing civil rights movement, racism still rules the streets and police officers are no exception. For most Black Americans, the 1960s were times of hope. Racial tensions are high-Black folks avoid even stepping foot in white neighborhoods. Black Betty Book by Walter Mosley Official Publisher Page Simon & Schuster About The Book Easy Rawlins is on the verge of losing everythinguntil he gets an offer from the FBI that he has no choice but to accept. Easy Rawlins, Los Angeles's mean streets were never meaner-or more deadly. Even as the obstacles grow higher and the bodies begin to pile up.Easy Rawlins is on the verge of losing everything-until he gets an offer from the FBI that he has no choice but to accept.įor most Black Americans, the 1960s were times of hope. Easy’s questions aren’t being answers and he realizes the case might be more complex than he thought.Įasy won’t stop at anything to find Black Betty.

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So when a white man approaches Easy with a wad of cash to find a missing person, Easy would is tempted to simply throw the money back in his sleazy face. Its the unsettled era of Kennedy, Khrushchev and Martin Luther King. Racial tensions are high-Black folks avoid even stepping foot in white neighborhoods. Easy Rawlins is on the verge of losing everything-until he gets an offer from the FBI that he has no choice but to accept.įor most Black Americans, the 1960s were times of hope.

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