Business-minded Mofass was intent on capturing the wealth so often milked out of the black community. Then there’s the cowardly but brilliant Jackson Blue whose entire life is a blueprint of how genius can defy expectation. The murderous Raymond “Mouse” Alexander, for instance, drew a line in the concrete demanding respect or death. The characters introduced by the Easy Rawlins series hopefully displayed glimmers of hope and resistance. Sometimes within failure is contained magnificence. In that book I talked about how poor black people migrated from the Deep South to Southern California, of how they flourished and ultimately failed only to rise again, flourish again, fail again but in the end, pressing the envelope of that contest forward each and every time. I wanted to tell a story about Los Angeles that highlighted black life and the black contribution to culture within a mirror-darkly that partially reflected the American experience within a shadowy landscape of national shame. When I wrote Devil I had a simple thought in mind.
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