{"product_id":"9781451612462","title":"Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned (Socrates Fortlow Series #1)","description":"\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Walter Mosley introduces an \"astonishing character\" \u003ci\u003e(Los Angeles Times Book Review)\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"Washington Square Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128658542832,"sku":"9781451612462","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781451612462_p0.jpg?v=1763842056","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781451612462","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}