What is the main conflict in Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley?

Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley takes place in Los Angeles following World War II. The main character, Easy Rawlins, has just been fired from his job at an airplane manufacturing plant. Feeling squeezed financially and afraid to forfeit his humble home, Easy agrees to work for an unsavory white man named DeWitt Albright. Easy's old friend from Texas, a former boxer named Joppy, arranges the first meeting between Easy and Albright.