That got me to the concrete path at the side of the front apartment building. I was up on my feet and walking just as if I was a living man in the real world who knew about gravity but didn’t worry about it bringing him down. The first nine steps were a real pleasure. A very worthwhile and entertaining read, and much more than 'just a murder mystery'.Author Walter Mosley recently joined Jeffrey Brown for a conversation on the PBS NewsHour about his latest novel, “Little Green.” Now you can read a passage from that new book.

Michael Boatman narrates the story flawlessly, bringing to life Mosley's diverse cast of characters of all ages, races, and both genders. Walter Mosley writes like an angel, effortlessly mixing political commentary with wry humanist observations, and a fast moving storyline. Easy, of course, has a mission, which also naturally involves beautiful women, narrow escapes, corpses,slugfests, mystery and musings. He emerges into a California summer just beginning to feel the sexual and political and moral changes that would form a chain reaction of protest movements and liberal thought, and conservative reaction. Readers have waited six years to find out that Easy survived, weakened in body, but with the same universal wisdom. Walter Mosley's sweet, streetwise Easy Rawlins detective was last seen drunkenly plummeting from Highway 1 into presumed oblivion. Mosley and EZ - Older, wiser, better than ever. Once again, Easy asserts his reign over the City of (Fallen) Angels. 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. 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. 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. We last saw Easy in 2007’s Blonde Faith, fighting for his life after his car plunges over a cliff.

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. Eleven books later, Easy Rawlins is one of the few private eyes in contemporary crime fiction who can be called iconic and immortal. 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).

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