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Written by Walter Mosley - Audio book performed by Paul Winfield - Unabridged Selections - 4 CASSETTES - 6 hours

Publisher, Dove Audio (October 1997)

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From the best-selling author of A Little Yellow Dog--the eagerly awaited debut of Socrates Fortlow, a bold and original new hero. Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned introduces Walter Mosley's most compelling new character since the debut of his immortal detective Easy Rawlins: one Socrates Fortlow, a tough, brooding ex-convict determined to challenge and understand the violence and anarchy in his world--and in himself. Three decades ago, the young Socrates had, in a burst of drunken rage, murdered a man and a woman with his huge "rock-breaking hands." Twenty-seven years of hard time in an Indiana prison followed. Now Socrates lives in a cramped, two-room apartment in an abandoned building in Watts, scavenging bottles and delivering groceries for a supermarket. In each of the stories that comprise this richly brooding novel, Socrates Fortlow, like his namesake, explores philosophical questions of morality in a world beset with crime, poverty, and racism. He is an unforgettable presence and his perceptions cast a glow of somber lyricism upon an often harsh world. Socrates is a creation of stunning originality; the book he inhabits is Walter Mosley's most powerful and eloquent to date.

About the Author: Walter Mosley is the author of six best-selling Easy Rawlins mysteries, the most recent of which are A Little Yellow Dog and Gone Fishin', and the novel RL's Dream. Sections of this book have appeared in Esquire, Buzz, GQ, and Story.His work is regularly seen on national bestseller lists and appears in the Norton Anthology of African American Literature.

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