Later, when Daddy Reese's real son Navrochet came after Mouse and Easy, Mouse killed him as well. He thinks back to the last time he saw Mouse, when Mouse killed his stepfather, Daddy Reese and blamed the murder on a man named Clifton. Getting a letter from Mouse makes Easy hide in the closet out of instinct. In it, he says that he is thinking about moving to Los Angeles. She also tells Easy who Daphne's boyfriend is.Įasy returns home in the morning to find a letter from Mouse, transcribed by a woman named Lucinda because Mouse is illiterate. Coretta tells Dupree that she spent time with Daphne. There, Coretta seduces Easy and they have passionate sex while Dupree sleeps.

The friends drink bourbon until Dupree passes out, and Easy and Coretta drag him back to her house. Dupree tells Easy that Benny wants Easy back. Easy also asks nonchalantly about Daphne, referring to her as 'Delia or Dahlia or something.'Įasy's friend, Dupree, arrives with his girlfriend, Coretta. This talk of Mouse sends Easy reminiscing about his history with the unhinged and murderous man. He tells Junior that the last he heard, Mouse was married to a woman named EttaMae Harris. Easy recalls that Junior nearly killed him in a brawl years before in Houston, but Mouse intervened. Junior tells Easy that Howard Green was killed because he was working for a man named Matthew Teran. He tells Junior that his boss, Benny, fired him as a show of racial superiority. He starts up a conversation with the doorman, Junior Fornay. Easy refuses, and makes his way inside, where he learns that a chauffeur named Howard Green was beaten to death after leaving the club. On his way in, he meets a drunken white man who offers him twenty dollars to help him get into the club. He takes one hundred dollars cash in advance.Įasy goes to John's Place, an illegal jazz club in the back of Hattie Parson's grocery store. Albright tells Easy that his client is looking for a white woman named Daphne Monet, who frequents black speakeasies. Albright's honesty, Easy goes to meet the white man at his office. Easy has just been laid off from his job at Champion aircraft company, and needs to make money for his mortgage. Albright offers Easy an undercover job and gives him a business card with the location of his office. African-American World War II veteran Ezekiel 'Easy' Rawlins is surprised when DeWitt Albright, a well-dressed white man, walks into Joppy's bar, normally a hangout for working-class black men.

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