

He is featured in a series of best-selling mysteries set from the 1940s to the 1960s. Rawlins is an African-American private investigator, a hard-boiled detective and World War II veteran living in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. 27.Fictional character Ezekiel "Easy" RawlinsĮzekiel "Easy" Porterhouse Rawlins is a fictional character created by mystery author Walter Mosley. Tall John is a science fiction creation but he is also a reinterpretation of High John the Conqueror - a character taken from old slave myths about a spirit come from Africa to confound the slave masters and (ultimately) to free all slaves. 9780316016353 47 27.6000 NZD InStock /shop/books /shop/books/childrens-books /shop/books/childrens-books/fiction /shop/books/childrens-books/fiction/science-fiction-fantasy A young slave boy is named and numbered 47 on a nineteenth-century Georgia plantation and encounters the brutality and injustice of the system of slavery. A young slave boy is named and numbered 47 on a nineteenth-century Georgia plantation and encounters the brutality and injustice of the system of slavery. Tall John is a science fiction creation but he is also a reinterpretation of High John the Conque. But as 47 comes to realise, John is an extraterrestrial visitor who believes that his destiny is intertwined with the young slave's. A young slave boy is named and numbered 47 on a nineteenth-century Georgia plantation and encounters the brutality and injustice of the system of slavery.Ĥ7 meets a strange being named Tall John who appears to be another slave boy - a runaway.
