{"product_id":"9780594795872","title":"Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned (Socrates Fortlow Series #1)","description":"\u003ci\u003eNovember 1997\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e  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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    In his own words, Walter Mosley describes his latest novel, \u003ci\u003eAlways Outnumbered, Always Outgunned,\u003c\/i\u003e as \"a story about a 60-something ex-con after he's spent 27 years in prison for a heinous double murder. It's a group of short stories in which Socrates Fortlow attempts to find a sense of morality and ethics way down below the template of middle-class justice.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    With \u003ci\u003eAlways Outnumbered Always Outgunned,\u003c\/i\u003e Mosley takes a break from his critically acclaimed Easy Rawlins series,  the chronicles of a rather reluctant detective (and natural-born existentialist). Mosley is the author of six bestselling Easy Rawlins mysteries:  \u003ci\u003eDevil in a Blue Dress\u003c\/i\u003e (the recent film adaptation starred Denzel Washington), \u003ci\u003eA Red Death, White Butterfly, Black Betty,\u003c\/i\u003e and most recently, \u003ci\u003eA Little Yellow Dog\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGone Fishin'\u003c\/i\u003e. In August 1995 he published his first nonmystery, \u003ci\u003eRL's Dream,\u003c\/i\u003e to widespread praise. His next novel, an anxiously awaited sci-fi thriller, is called \u003ci\u003eBlue Light\u003c\/i\u003e and will be the first novel in his all new Invasion of Light trilogy, about the invasion of earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Washington Square Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47014670270704,"sku":"9780594795872","price":4.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780594795872_p0.jpg?v=1763724329","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780594795872","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}