The Last Days of Louisiana Red: A Novel

The Last Days of Louisiana Red: A Novel by Reed, Ishmael. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781564782366.

"The Last Days of Louisiana Red blends paradox, hyperbole, understatement and signifyin so expertly you can almost hear a droll black voice telling the tales as you read it."—The New Republic When Papa LaBas (private eye, noonday HooDoo, and hero of Reeds Mumbo Jumbo) comes to Berkeley, California, to investigate the mysterious death of Ed Yellings, owner of the Solid Gumbo Works, he finds himself fighting the rising tide of violence propagated by Louisiana Red and those militant opportunists, the Moochers. A HooDoo detective story and a comprehensive satire on the explosive politics of the 60s, The Last Days of Louisiana Red exposes the hypocrisy of contemporary American culture and race politics.