Soon the Rest Will Fall A Novel

Slatts Calhoun and Robert Grogan saw things in San Quentin State Prison that were a far cry from the safe existence of working at a nine-to-five job, paying the mortgage, being married and having children. They witnessed rapes and riots, convicts getting shot by guards, stretches in solitary confinement, lousy food and no privacy. But when they are paroled and let out onto the gritty streets of San Francisco, they discover new complications: the two men had been cell mates and lovers. Robert has a wife and kids on the outside, and the two worlds are about to collide. Peter Plate delivers a manic, intensely human and lyrical portrait of two cons trying to make it in the sweltering holiday madhouse of three-time loser's San Francisco.

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 with Black Wheel of Anger (1990) and continuing through his seven neo-noir "psychic histories" of San Francisco, where he still lives and writes today.