Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned (Socrates Fortlow Series #1)

Meet Socrates Fortlow, a bold and original new hero: a tough, brooding ex-convict determined to challenge and understand the violence and anarchy in his world -- and in himself. In each of the stories that compose this richly brooding novel, Socrates Fortlow, like his namesake, explores philosophical questions of morality in a world beset with crime, poverty, and racism.

In his own words, Walter Mosley describes his latest novel, Always Outnumbered, Always O…