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Summary

Hailed as a masterpiece-the finest work yet by an American  novelist of the first rank-this is the mysterious story of a young  black man who agrees to an unusual bargain to save the home that has  belonged to his family for  generations.The man at Charles  Blakey's door has a proposition almost too strange for words. The  stranger offers him $50,000 in cash to spend the summer in Charles's  basement, and Charles cannot even begin to guess why. The beautiful  house has been in the Blakey family for generations, but Charles has  just lost his job and is behind on his mortgage payments. The money  would be welcome. But Charles Blakey is black and Anniston Bennet is  white, and it is clear that the stranger wants more than a basement  view.There is something deeper and darker about his request, and Charles does not need any more trouble. But financial necessity leaves him no choice. Once Anniston Bennet is installed in his basement, Charles is cast into a role he never dreamed of. Anniston has some very particular requests for his landlord, and try as he might, Charles cannot avoid being lured into Bennet’s strange world. At first he resists, but soon he is tempted–tempted to understand a set of codes that has always eluded him, tempted by the opportunity to understand the secret ways of white folks.?
Charles’s summer with a man in his basement turns into an exploration of inconceivable worlds of power and manipulation, and unimagined realms of humanity. Walter Mosley pierces long-hidden veins of justice and morality with startling insight into the deepest mysteries of human nature.

Duration: about 5 hours (05:15:53)
Publishing date: 2005-04-01; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —

• Crime & Thriller
• Contemporary Fiction