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The last novel in the series ended in a cliffhanger. PI Easy Rawlins was in a bad wreck when his car went off Highway 1. The author left the option open to bring him back from the dead (as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle brought back Sherlock Holmes). Now Easy is back, somewhat battered but on his feet with the help of some powerful folk medicine - rescued by his friend Mouse who now has a job for Easy. The task is to find a missing teenager whom Mouse calls Little Green. Life is never simple. Tracing Little Green through the hippy culture of Hollywood is only half the battle. A large amount of money has entered the picture - over $200,000 which in present day dollars would be equivalent to a couple million. There are some ugly people looking for the money. Organized crime is involved. Along the way you meet a cast of characters, alive and dead. You will visit the 1960s drug scene (mostly marijuana and LSD), and observe the racial problems and attitudes in late 1960s LA (I personally lived there about 10 years earlier before the lid blew off). Easy is a licensed PI and has a concealed carry permit, but it was not wise for a black person to display a firearm - police tended to shoot.


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Little Green An Easy Rawlins Mystery Walter Mosley Books Reviews

Walter Mosley is a master story-teller, and Easy Rawlins is his masterpiece. It's been a few years since I've read an episode in Easy's life. Not by design, but just as a random result of there being so many books already at hand. I realize now how much I missed him. His life and his adventures are always fascinating, and this installment is no exception. As a trivial observation, I noticed Mr. Mosley likes green. The color appears in the title, but crops up repeatedly in the book to describe clothes, furniture and so forth. For my money (green), he can use whatever hue he likes. This installment of Easy's life and times is pure gold in any event.
With Little Green Walter Mosley brings back from the near dead his premiere character, Easy Rawlins, and in doing so cements his position in the triumvirate atop the hard-boiled PI Mt. Olympus, with Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald. In fact, in light of the racial themes Mosley is able to so powerfully exploit, and the rich history of characters from previous novels that form a living community in which Easy moves, I would be apt to place Mosley at the top of the literate detective story genre.

When last we encountered Easy Rawlins he was narrating his own suicide/accidental death at the end of Blond Faith, obviously leaving the door open for a return, but only a crack. At the time Mosley was saying that his return was unlikely. This book proves that Mosley still has a lot to say through Easy, as this comeback is a terrific effort.

Even though six years have passed since the last Easy Rawlins book, only 2 months have passed for Easy--a two month purgatory of semi-comatose incapacity where he has been nursed by Mouse, Feather, Jesus and Benita. He awakens to family, and none closer than Mouse, who asks him (with Mouse-like inscrutability) to track down a young man, the titular Little Green, who has disappeared into 1967 Sunset Strip hippiedom. Easy knows it is either move forward or die, so with the help of some mysterious Gator juice, brewed up by Mama Jo, he does move forward with a plot rich in timely detail and interpersonal observation. Easy deftly deals with hippies, motorcycle gangsters, plain old street gangsters, prostitutes, corporate raiders, blackmailers, drunks, officious bureaucrats, bartenders and businessmen, to name but a few. He is back in his element. The cast Mosley has created over the previous 11 Rawlins books makes for a rich backdrop and sentimental heft to Easy's musings. We run up against Blue, Jewel, Mama Jo, Demarque and Primo (in name), Suggs, Jesus and Feather, Etta, even Joppy Shag makes an appearance when Easy needs a temporary false name, and above all Raymond Alexander. Easy even achieves a reconciliation, of sorts, with Bonnie Shay. We also meet a couple of new characters, the hippie chicks Ruby and Coco, that Mosley invests with so much life that we hope for their return in future stories.

While it is true that before the demise of Easy in Blond Faith the Rawlins formula was wearing a little thin, absence has definitely made the heart grow fonder. This novel seems fresh, original, and in places profound with Mosley hitting on all cylinders once again. A great performance.
I don't know if I would have like it had I not been familiar with all of the other Easy Rawlins' books, Knowing the characters and experiences go a long way towards setting the mood here. The plot is a bit, well more than a bit, incredulous as Easy, after spending two months on his back drifting in and out of consciousness, gets out of bed, walks out of the house to take on a case on the request of Mouse. Fortunately he did not need any fisticuffs. However, even movement was a stretch of the imagination here. Luckily for Easy, he had some of Mama Jo's elixir in a bottle that helped him. Mama Jo has a fortune to be made if she could bottle it and get it past the FDA.
I like Easy but this book wasn't all that easy. I know Mosley has written another and I hope it's a bit more credible than this one. Maybe he needs Mama Jo's help.
Once again Walter allowed me to see through the lens of an adult some of the people, events, and times shaping my early childhood in the 1960s. Whenever I am in LA literally and with Walter's books I get just a bit nostalgic about the simple beauty and peace that I knew, for what was for many much possibility and opportunity against the struggle and backdrop of city in constant battle with white majority privilege and an encroaching non-white majority claim to the fruits of fortitude and gains of hard work. Mosley does all of this with a cast of imperfect characters we can't get enough of,like Mama Jo and Jackson Blue, people doing what needed to be done and making no excuses. Easy and Mouse continue to live by a code of conduct taking no prisoners all the while honoring life, roots, and heritage of a people who where often accountable to one another even when circumstances would suggest otherwise.

It was good to see Easy come back from the dead but it was a bit hard to buy his re-union with the love of his life Bonnie given his remorse over what he thought was his failure handed to him by her for redemption from past sins. Looking forward to the next Rawlins saga.
The last novel in the series ended in a cliffhanger. PI Easy Rawlins was in a bad wreck when his car went off Highway 1. The author left the option open to bring him back from the dead (as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle brought back Sherlock Holmes). Now Easy is back, somewhat battered but on his feet with the help of some powerful folk medicine - rescued by his friend Mouse who now has a job for Easy. The task is to find a missing teenager whom Mouse calls Little Green. Life is never simple. Tracing Little Green through the hippy culture of Hollywood is only half the battle. A large amount of money has entered the picture - over $200,000 which in present day dollars would be equivalent to a couple million. There are some ugly people looking for the money. Organized crime is involved. Along the way you meet a cast of characters, alive and dead. You will visit the 1960s drug scene (mostly marijuana and LSD), and observe the racial problems and attitudes in late 1960s LA (I personally lived there about 10 years earlier before the lid blew off). Easy is a licensed PI and has a concealed carry permit, but it was not wise for a black person to display a firearm - police tended to shoot.