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Ny Times best-selling author Walter Mosley introduces an "amazing personality" (L A Times Book Review) in this acclaimed assortment of entwined stories. Meet Socrates Fortlow, a difficult ex con seeking truth and payoff in South-Central L A -- and locating the wonder of success. "I possibly committed a crime or experienced a crime done in my experience every single day I was in prison. You fit there when you visit jail." Socrates Fortlow has been doing his time: twenty-seven years for rape and killing, functions cast by his large, stone-splitting fingers.