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Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned by Mosley, Walter is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<p><br><I>New York Times</I> bestselling author Walter Mosley introduces an "astonishing character" <I>(Los Angeles Times Book Review)</I> 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. <P> <I>"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."</I> Socrates Fortlow has done his time&#58; 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 prison&#58; 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 man&#58; 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.</p><h3>The Los Angeles Times Book Review</h3><p><P><I>Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned</I> is the work of a writer unafraid of pushing forward his own notions of responsibility an

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Author
Mosley, Walter
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Published
2010
Language
EN
ISBN
9780393045390
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Literary Fiction, Mystery
Rating
4.15 / 5 (2,730 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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