Soon the Rest Will Fall (17 page)

Copyright © 2006 by Peter Plate

 

All characters in this novel are fictitious, and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

 

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A version of chapter eighteen appeared in
San Francisco Noir
, Akashic Books 2005.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Plate, Peter.

eISBN : 978-1-609-80056-7

1. Ex-convicts—California—San Francisco—Fiction. 2. San Francisco (Calif.)—Fiction. 3. Gay men—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3566.L267S'.54—dc22 2006027383