When Walter Mosley burst onto the literary scene in 1990
with his first Easy Rawlins mystery, Devil in a Blue
Dress—a combustible mixture of Raymond Chandler and
Richard Wright—he captured the attention of hundreds of
thousands of readers (including future president Bill
Clinton). Eleven books later, Easy Rawlins is one of the few
private eyes in contemporary crime fiction who can be called
iconic and immortal. In the incendiary and fast-paced
Little Green, he returns from the brink of death to
investigate the dark side of L.A.’s 1960s hippie haven, the
Sunset Strip.
We last saw Easy in 2007’s Blonde
Faith, fighting for his life after his car plunges over
a cliff. True to form, the tough WWII veteran survives, and
soon his murderous sidekick Mouse has him back cruising the
mean streets of L.A., in all their psychedelic 1967 glory,
to look for a young black man, Evander “Little Green” Noon,
who disappeared during an acid trip. Fueled by an elixir
called Gator’s Blood, brewed by the conjure woman Mama Jo,
Easy experiences a physical, spiritual, and emotional
resurrection, but peace and love soon give way to murder and
mayhem. Written with Mosley’s signature grit and panache,
this engrossing and atmospheric mystery is not only a trip
back in time, it is also a tough-minded exploration of good
and evil, and of the power of guilt and redemption. Once
again, Easy asserts his reign over the City of (Fallen) Angels.
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