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He learns that Carter is in love with Daphne, but she left him when blackmailers tried to use her to manipulate Carter.

He then visits Todd Carter, the rich businessman who hired Albright to find Daphne. Now, feeling overwhelmed, Easy sends a message to Mouse, inviting him to LA. He tells Albright about his outing with Daphne and agrees to track down Frank Green.Įarlier, Easy received a letter from his friend Raymond “Mouse” Alexander, whose violent past troubles Easy. Easy returns home, where he finds Albright waiting for him. After kissing Easy goodbye, Daphne leaves in Richard’s car. He gives her a ride to her ex-boyfriend Richard McGee’s house, where they find Richard murdered in his bed. Afterwards, Easy visits John’s place, where he learns that Coretta was murdered in the same brutal manner as Howard.īack at home that night, Easy receives a call from Daphne, who asks for his help. As Easy leaves the station, Matthew Teran apprehends him and questions him as well. When Easy arrives home, two policemen arrest him and brutally question him for several hours. The next morning, Easy returns to the airplane factory but fails to regain his job after he refuses to grovel to his boss. Easy tells Albright about Frank and Daphne. The next day, Easy meets Albright at an amusement park, where Albright humiliates a group of teenagers for harassing Easy. Coretta reveals that she saw Daphne with gangster Frank Green not long ago.

When Dupree passes out, Easy helps Coretta take him home. He shares a few drinks with his coworker at the factory, Dupree Bouchard, and Dupree’s girlfriend, Coretta James.

Seeking information about Daphne, Easy visits John’s place, a local nightclub, where he learns of the murder of Howard Green, who worked for corrupt political candidate Matthew Teran. Desperate to make his next mortgage payment, Easy takes the job at the urging of his friend Joppy, a boxer turned bartender, despite misgivings about the ruthless white man who hires him, Dewitt Albright. In 1948 Los Angeles, California, Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins, a Black WWII veteran who recently lost his job at an airplane manufacturing plant, accepts a temporary job looking for a woman named Daphne Monet.