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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 a unique bargain to save the house 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 summertime in Charles's basement, and Charles cannot even get started to guess why. The stunning house has been in the Blakey family for generations, but Charles has just lost his job and it is behind on his mortgage repayments. The amount of money would be welcome. But Charles Blakey is black and Anniston Bennet is white, which is clear that the stranger wants greater than a basement view.
There is something deeper and darker about his request, and Charles doesn't need any more trouble. But financial necessity leaves him no choice. Once Anniston Bennet is installed in his basement, Charles is cast into a job he never dreamed of. Anniston has some very particular requests for his landlord, and try as he could, Charles cannot you shouldn't be lured into Bennet's strange world. Initially he resists, but soon he is tempted--tempted to comprehend a couple of codes that has always eluded him, tempted by the opportunity to understand the trick means of white folks.
Charles's summer with a guy in his basement becomes 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 in to the deepest mysteries of human nature.
