Blind Man With a Pistol by Chester Himes
Set in Harlam in the 1960’s, Himes paints a gritty portrait full of colorful characters from all walks of life.
Blind Man With A Pistol follows two detectives working separate murder cases during the summer’s unbearable heat in Harlem. It’s a summer filled with violence, murder, riots and racial divides.
Detective Coffin Ed Johnson’s face is permanently scared from an acid attack years earlier yet any taunting that comes his way seems to roll easily off his back. Can’t help but relate this to Himes’ brother Joe whose face was severly burned from a gunpowder explosion and turned away from the white hospital in the south.
Grave Digger Jones is a realist and understands the inequalities in the police force yet his frustrations and subdued anger lie just below the surface. On one hand, he is the voice of law and order, but on the other hand, he is sympathetic to the mob of angry men in the street, even when they are throwing things his way.
Quotes:
The assistant Medical Examiner looked like a city college student in a soiled seersucker suit. His thick brown hair needed cutting and his hornrimmed glasses needed wiping. He looked as humorless as befits a man whose business is the dead.
The word police has the power of magic in Harlem. It can make whole houses filled with people disappear.
Meeting Mr. Hines would be a thrill. His interesting life would make for easy conversation and I’d surely let him lead the way.
My rating for Blind Man With a Pistol is an 8 out of 10.
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