Personal problems nag at Easy as he goes about trying to locate the trio.  Bonnie, the woman that he dearly loves but threw out of his life a while back, is now engaged to a Prince and Easy sees his one chance for true happiness slipping away.

The search for the three men takes Easy Rawlins into some serious peril when a couple of military officers arrive on the scene claiming to be representing the government on a mission to track down Christmas Black. The soldiers play rough.

Easy Rawlins is having no luck in locating the missing men but a mysterious woman named Faith just might hold the answers that he needs.

Walter Mosley has this story set in 1967 during the height of the civil rights movement when bigotry and discrimination were just beginning to lose their hold on society. Rawlins occasionally finds himself at odds with the local culture in his quest. It’s just another obstacle in an already impossible situation.

By my count, this is the eleventh book in Walter Mosley’s "Easy Rawlins" series and there are strong hints that Mosley feels that Easy’s story has been told. I certainly hope that this isn’t the end.