Originally black and white, it's been touched up in color. 'Whatever the market can bear.'ĭewitt shows Easy a picture of the missing girl. 'Whatever the market can bear.' He smiled, looking like a hungry bear himself. 'They gotta sayin' for his line'a work, Ease.' "'And just exactly what kind of business is it he does? I mean, is he a shirt salesman or what?' In 1948, that's more than a couple mortgage payments to tide Easy over while he looks for his next job. But Dewitt's a businessman with a simple job for Easy- he offers him a hundred dollars to find a white girl known to hang out in the African-American community.
Easy can't help but notice that Joppy, an ex-heavyweight fighter, is nervous, a sure tip-off there's something wrong. Laid off from his job building jets, he needs to make payment on his mortgage or face the loss of his house.ĭrowning his woes at a tiny bar above a meatpacking warehouse, his friend and bar owner Joppy hooks him up with DeWitt Albright. It is a classic:Įasy Rawlins is just trying to get by.
If you don't immediately start humming the song when you see this title, play it while you read.
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