# Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned

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- Authors: [Walter Mosley](https://www.bookquiver.com/walter-mosley)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2018-09-06

## Description

Adapted for the screen in 1998 starring Laurence Fishburne as Socrates Fortlow. 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 time: 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: 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: 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.

## Editions

### Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned

- Publisher: w_n
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7460-855-8
- Published: 2018-09-06
- Language: en_GB