Soon the Rest Will Fall
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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.
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