Title: Excellent, riveting, disturbing
Product review: I'm a fan of Moseley's non-Easy Rawlins' works. I read Futureland earlier this year and when I saw that his latest novel, THE MAN IN MY BASEMENT, was not part of his mystery series I grabbed it from my local library. This novel is mesmerizing---I read it very nearly straight through. The main character Charles is despicable in many ways---lazy, selfish, corrupt, a thief, a womanizer---and yet Moseley makes us like him---mostly because Charles is very, very funny.Mr. Bennet, who Charles agrees to allow to stay in his basement in a makeshift prison cell in exchange for a pile of cash, on the other hand, is pure evil. Compared to Bennet, Charles is a saint, and as Charles gets to know just how evil Bennet is, it helps bring about his own redemption. The kinds of evil Bennet is involved in gives me chills even several weeks after reading the book. An excellent study in the real definition of evil and responsibility.
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