Police And Thieves: A Novel

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Eichman, Bobo and Doojie are squatters in a garage behind the Del Rosa laundromat on Mission Street, San Francisco. They are small-time dealers. Flaherty is a five foot seven cop in skin-tight jeans who carries a chrome-plated pistol and boasts the departmental record for arrests. Flaherty is losing control and the lives of all four characters become inexplicably linked when Doojie watches him shoot a man. Peter Plate is one of the most intriguing novelists writing now' - Review of Contemporary Fiction.'

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Named a Literary Laureate of San Francisco in 2004,PETER PLATE taught himself to write fiction during eight years spent squatting in abandoned buildings. He is the author of many novels, beginning withBlack Wheel of Anger(1990) and continuing through his seven neo-noir "psychic histories" of San Francisco, where he still lives and writes today.