Book Review: “Charcoal Joe” by Walter Mosley; Hypnotic

[image error]I love this hypnotic book, the 14th in Walter Mosley’s Easy Rawlins series—best book I’ve read in ages.

Easy’s childhood friend Mouse introduces him to Rufus Tyler, a man everyone calls Charcoal Joe. 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. 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 th...