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    Little Green: An Easy Rawlins Mystery
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    Little Green: An Easy Rawlins Mystery

    Written by Walter Mosley

    Narrated by Michael Boatman

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMay 14, 2013
    ISBN9780385362320
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    Little Green: An Easy Rawlins Mystery
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    Walter Mosley

    Walter Mosley (b. 1952) is the author of the bestselling mystery series featuring Easy Rawlins, as well as numerous other works, from literary fiction and science fiction to a young adult novel and political monographs. His short fiction has been widely published, and his nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times Magazine and the Nation, among other publications. Mosley is the winner of numerous awards, including an O. Henry Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, a Grammy, and PEN America’s Lifetime Achievement Award. He lives in New York City. 

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    • 4/5
      My forast Easy Rawlins read. Great writing and characters but too many of them. Usually a good story but it went on a tangent toward the middle of the book. Great look at late 60's LA through a black man's experience. Easy and Mouse combined would have been Travis McGee. Started out a 4 but became a little convoluted. I'll certainly try another one
    • 4/5
      Easy Rawlings is a private detective in Los Angeles. He is black and it is sixties; so he is a rarity. It begins with Easy waking up after being in a car crash that nearly kills him (except everybody thought he was dead). He is asked by his friend and sidekick, Mouse to locate the son of a friend who disappeared after taking acid. What follows his Easy trying to investigate while dealing with his sore body, someone else living in his home, the aftermath of the Watt Riots and hippies galore. Walter Mosley takes the reader back to the sixties with such a descriptive narrative and Easy is no superman but a guy trying to make a living and survive. I found it to be more than a mystery novel, I found it to be a study of what it was like living in that era. I got so absorbed in the culture and the story that I found myself finishing the book quickly. I enjoyed it this one very much.
    • 5/5
      Not even death comes easy for Easy Rawlins, a black private eye in 1960's California. It's been three months since his car went over a cliff and he was presumed dead. (Blonde Faith: An Easy Rawlins Novel) If it wasn't for the determination of his friend, Mouse, Easy would have died. Mouse was more likely to be cause of men dying than their being saved, but he would not give up on Easy. Mouse scoured the cliff side looking for his friend. He finally found Easy's near lifeless body and carried Easy up the cliff to safety. After three months in a coma with some doctoring and constant home nursing care, Easy is coming back from the edge. The one thing that can surely pump the life back into Easy's ravaged body, is a plea for help from Mouse. Walter Mosley's writing reminds me of another author's easy going style that is yet so revealing of the human condition. Mark Twain and Mosley both tell us so much about ourselves as they spin their yarns. We are easily drawn into their world, leaving us nodding our heads in acknowledgement that once again we have been shown who we truly are. Book provided for review by Amazon Vine and Doubleday.
    • 5/5
      great book! Jam the box and cue up Rosa Gold.
    • 4/5
      I've been reading Easy Rawlins for some 20 years now. I read the first book in one sitting staying up all night in bed with the light down low. This one took me a couple of days but it was just as good as ever.
    • 4/5
      Easy has been yanked back from the brink of death (or maybe actually from across the threshold) by Mouse, and Mama Jo, and others who care deeply about him. But he isn't too keen on living these days. The life he nearly left behind (in [Blonde Faith]) was in shambles, and he could only think of one way to fix it. Now, he wakes to a request from Mouse that he try to find out what happened to Little Green Noon, a young man whose mother is distraught at his disappearance into the hippy culture of the Sunset Strip. Only for Mouse would Easy take this on in his current state, and he isn't sure he won't still want to check out for good once the job is done. But we know that's not how things will turn out. Too many people love him, and he's never let them down yet.
    • 4/5
      It's been awhile since Mosley has published a written an Easy Rawlins mystery. Easy is back, almost from the dead. He's helping his friend find a young man who is missing. It's 1967 and the hippies and racist cops abound. The hippies are into their drugs and the cops are uneasy after the Watts riots. Even with the racism, Easy experiences he remains a classy man who is concerned about the welfare of others. The missing person case turns into the theft of money from a drug buy and it becomes dangerous but Easy survives and justice is served.
    • 4/5
      Walter Mosley is always an easy and enjoyable read. In Little Green, Easy has just come out of a coma after a tragic auto accident and his friend Mouse asks him to find the son, Evander, of a friend of his. Of course this raises Easy's low spirits and puts him on the fast track to recovery.Along the way, he encounters drugs, extortion, murder and more.A great mystery beach read.
    • 4/5
      I did not realize how much I missed Easy Rawlins and his motley crew until I started reading the spellbinding first page of this well-plotted novel of gritty action and emotional fallout of secrets and bad decisions. The book opens with Easy waking from a coma caused by a bad accident in a dream-like state physically weak but knowing that he needs to keep moving forward if he is to survive. Mosley’s skill with characterization shines through as whom else but Raymond “Mouse” Alexander would be the one to not only find Easy but to ease him back into the living world – their connection to each other is soul-deep and profound. As Easy ventures out to find a young black man, Evander “Little Green” Noon who has last seen in the “hippie” section of L.A., the story twists and turns to reveal there is much more than what meets the eye. With a strong supporting cast with the likes of Mama Jo, Jackson Blue, Feather and Jesus, the story is told in the moment with flashbacks which resurrects old ghosts and stirs up old memories, as the changing times of 1967 brings new hope for harmony, yet often enough the ugly truths show that often justice is behind the times. The trademark dry humor, the keen understanding of 1967 L.A., the charismatic characters makes this an entertaining novel with heart and chutzpah. This is a great series that leaves the reader desperate for the next book.