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.'