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Socrates Fortlow, a 60‑year‑old former criminal who has just walked free after 27 years behind bars, lives in South Central Los Angeles. Determined to make amends for his past, he forms a Thinkers’ Club with his gambler friend Billy Psalms. The club brings together people from all walks of life—lawyers, gangsters, preachers, Buddhists, businessmen—to discuss the unanswerable questions of life. As undercover police infiltrate the group and tensions rise between hot‑blooded gangsters and respectable deacons, Socrates and his crew ask what can be done to change themselves and, perhaps, the world. Their conversations touch on racial authenticity, street justice, infidelity, poverty, and the possibility of mutual understanding, revealing a quietly profound exploration of moral action in a violent, fallen society.
First publish date: 2008
Genre: Literary Fiction/Contemporary Literary Fiction
Authors: Walter Mosley
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