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Sinister patrols of SWAT teams seem to materialize out of thin air, and if you're not careful, you ll end up exiled down in Bakersfield. In the middle of it all, the fourteen-year-old narrator in Night of the Short Eyes must take care of his mess of a family - Dad is in jail for stealing guns with his partner, Ronnie, and Mom is shacking up with the social worker assigned to the family's case - and he only has one thing to his advantage: he speaks perfect English. Refugees from Russia stream into San Francisco as our narrator approaches his next birthday. His younger brother (nicknamed Putin, 'on account of his broken English and heavy accent.') seems determined to make trouble if he cannot find it himself. Which shouldn't be hard when even crossing the street is a walk on the dangerous side. In this world of worsening climate disasters, and set against the backdrop of a cold war that never ended, Night of the Short Eyes, the new book from Peter Plate may be his most outrageous novel yet. Written with lyrical grace and propulsive momentum, Plate's latest vision of California is so warped that it just might come to pass.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49744429383953,"sku":"NGR9781644213148","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50045771284753,"sku":"CIN1644213141G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50407170900241,"sku":"CIN1644213141VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1644213141.jpg?v=1751310861"},{"product_id":"fogtown-book-peter-plate-9781583226391","title":"Fogtown","description":"Peter Plate's latest novel depicts hell as the underbelly of contemporary San Francisco. One foggy day there brings together bloody ghosts, a dandyish thug, capricious cops, a suicidal punk rocker, a hyper-literate slumlord, and a sweet old lady sent by God to hand out cash from a hijacked armoured car. In Fogtown, Peter Plate uses a loving hand to carve his characters out of hallucination, perversity and tenacity. Fogtown describes an age unmistakeably built on the twentieth century of Nelson Algren and Charles Bukowski.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50134723789073,"sku":"CIN1583226397VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50828927697169,"sku":"CIN1583226397G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1583226397.jpg?v=1751407810"},{"product_id":"police-and-thieves-book-peter-plate-9781888363951","title":"Police And Thieves","description":"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.'","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50236874752273,"sku":"CIN1888363959G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1888363959.jpg?v=1750834411"},{"product_id":"snitch-factory-book-peter-plate-9781583222584","title":"Snitch Factory","description":"Amid a background of bank robberies and fatal gunshot wounds, the real drama here is bureaucratic and human. In her response to the adversity all around her, Peter Plate's Charlene Hassler, a social worker at the huge, anthill-like Department of Social Services complex on San Francisco's Otis Street, is a literary tour de force. Straight out of Dante's Inferno, Plate's DSS is an eternal holding pen of unfulfilled needs and desires. Charlene is under investigation, and snitches are everywhere. A co-worker is murdered. Charlene's boss and former mentor spends amorous afternoons with her arch-enemy. The custodian burglarizes her desk, then shoots her in the knee after he imagines she's ratted on him. As the anger and chaos at DSS reach epic proportions, we witness the strange heroism of Charlene's coworkers when they foil a hold-up; her boss's real vulnerability after a suicide attempt; and Charlene herself triumphantly winning her personal battle for romance in this true human comedy.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50236875637009,"sku":"CIN1583222588G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51766517399825,"sku":"CIN1583222588VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1583222588.jpg?v=1750830540"},{"product_id":"angels-of-catastrophe-book-peter-plate-9781583220634","title":"The Angels Of Catastrophe","description":"A cop is gunned down and unless Ricky Durrutti, a petty criminal with a short biography and a long rap sheet, can figure out who the real shooter is, he's a dead man. From Hunt's Donuts, opposite where the killing took place, to his room in the El Capitan Hotel, from the blue grass and steel Federal Building off Golden Gate Avenue to the Ritmo Latino record store, and from the Roxie Cinema on 16th Street to the Ramshackle Victorian homes of Treat Street where Lonely Boy lives--the chase is on. Salvadoreno gangs and Mexicans, cops and Jewish gangsters, drag queens and heroin addicts, speed freaks and low rent hookers, low-lives rising rising to the challenge of making sense of a murder. Out of the twentieth century of Nelson Algren and Charles Bukowski, here is the twenty-first century world of Peter Plate.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50236875866385,"sku":"CIN1583220631G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51331408658705,"sku":"CIN1583220631VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1583220631.jpg?v=1751407808"},{"product_id":"one-foot-off-the-gutter-book-peter-plate-9781583222591","title":"One Foot Off The Gutter","description":"The time is the late 1980s. A police officer has been gunned down. Our narrator, Coddy, a policeman, is underpaid, sleep-deprived and overweight. Coddy's partner, Bellamy, lives out of their shared squad car, littering the back seat with his dirty underwear and empty cigarette packs. Free Box and Barbie are squatters who rob Rainbow Health Foods at gunpoint for something to eat. From the junkies openly shooting up on stoops to the homeless men with their fleets of shopping carts piled high with garbage, Plate's Mission District is 'a catechism in destruction'.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50392233869585,"sku":"CIN1583222596G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1583222596.jpg?v=1751056856"},{"product_id":"police-and-thieves-book-peter-plate-9781583224823","title":"Police And Thieves","description":"In the final instalment of Peter Plate's acclaimed Mission Quartet, Doojie, Eichmann and Bobo are squatters and small-time dope dealer living in a two-car garage behind the Del Rosa Laundromat on Mission Street in San Francisco. Their prices are reasonable, the quality of their product questionable. 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