When Walter Mosley burst onto the literary scene in 1990 with his first Easy Rawlins secret, Devil in a Blue Dress-a combustible combination of Raymond Chandler and Richard Wright-he captured the attention of hundreds of thousands of visitors (including future chief executive Expenses Clinton). Eleven books later on, Easy Rawlins is one of the few private eyes in contemporary criminal offense fiction who could be known as iconic and immortal. In the incendiary and fast-paced Small Green, he profits from your brink of loss of life to about Small Green: A STRAIGHTFORWARD Rawlins Mystery investigate the dark aspect of L.A.’s 1960s hippie haven, the Sunset Remove.

We last saw Easy in 2007’s Blonde Beliefs, fighting with each other for his life after his car plunges over a cliff. True to form, the challenging WWII veteran survives, and soon his murderous sidekick Mouse has him back cruising the suggest streets of L.A., in all their psychedelic 1967 glory, to look for a young black man, Evander “Small Green” Noon, who vanished during an acid trip. Fueled by an elixir known as Gator’s Blood, brewed by the conjure woman Mama Jo, Easy experiences a physical, religious, and psychological resurrection, but serenity and love shortly cave in to murder and mayhem. Written with Mosley’s personal grit and panache, this engrossing and atmospheric secret isn’t only a trip back in its history, additionally it is a tough-minded exploration of great and bad, and of the power of guilt and redemption. Once again, Easy asserts his reign over the City of (Fallen) Angels.