The Right Mistake (Socrates Fortlow #3 - Walter Mosley
Category: Mystery
Tags: Mystery
Living in South Central L.A., Socrates Fortlow is a sixty-year-old ex-convict, still strong enough to kill men with his bare hands. Now freed after serving twenty-seven years in prison, he is filled with profound guilt about his own crimes and disheartened by the chaos of the streets. Along with his gambler friend Billy Psalms, Socrates calls together local people of all races from their different social stationslawyers, gangsters, preachers, Buddhists, businessmento conduct meetings of a Thinkers Club, where all can discuss the unanswerable questions in life.The street philosopher enjoins his friends to exploreeven in the knowledge that theres nothing that they personally can do to change the ways of the worldwhat might be done anyway, what it would take to change themselves. Infiltrated by undercover cops, and threatened by strain from within, tensions rise as hot-blooded gangsters and respectable deacons fight over issues of personal and social responsibility. But simply by asking q
