num_pages: 208
description: New York Times bestselling author Walter Mosley introduces an "astonishing character" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) in this acclaimed collection of entwined tales. Meet Socrates Fortlow, a tough ex-con seeking truth and redemption in South Central Los Angeles—and finding the miracle of survival."I either committed a crime or had a crime done to me every day I was in jail. Once you go to prison you belong there." Socrates Fortlow has done his twenty-seven years for murder and rape, acts forged by his huge, rock-breaking hands. Now, he has come home to a new kind of two battered rooms in an abandoned building in Watts. Working for the Bounty supermarket, and moving perilously close to invisibility, it is Socrates who throws a lifeline to a drowning young Darryl, whose shaky path is already bloodstained and fearsome. In a place of violence and hopelessness, Socrates offers up his own battle-scarred wisdom that can turn the world around.
language: English
title: Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
titlecomplete: Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
characters: Socrates Fortlow
genres: Noir, Mystery, Short Stories, African American, Novels, Audiobook, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 4131
series: Socrates Fortlow
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
publisher: Washington Square Press