It's 1963 easy Rawlins has given up the street life that has brought him so much trouble in grief. He's taken on a job as a supervising custodian of surgery truth junior high school and lots. For two years he's been getting up early and going off to work. He wears nice clothes and puts on all his energy and love into his job and his adopted children. Easy likes his new life even though it feels empty and a little bored sometimes. But all that is about to change. Easy comes in early one morning to find one of the teachers already in her classroom. She has a dog with her and the story about a husband going mad. Before he knows what's happening the teacher is in his arms. Before the day is over the teacher is gone leaving easy with her dog and the hand semest corpse easy has ever seen in school garden. That night a second corpse turns up. Easy may have left their streets but he still hasn't forgotten. The world is changing faster than he can keep up with. The police believe that easy is involved with the murders. Old enemies are waiting to get even. The principal of the school wants to fire him. His old friends aren't the same and is new friends might be his death. Easy wants back into his careful little life but that door is closed. A murderer is running loose somewhere. And a little yellow dog plot through revenge. Excellent condition for its age Copyright 1996