Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)

by Walter Mosley

I often think of how so many people have walked into my life for just a few minutes and kicked up some dust, then they’re gone away. My father was like that; my mother wasn’t much better.

“The law,” he continued, “is made by the rich people so that the poor people can’t get ahead. You don’t want to get mixed up with the law and neither do I.”