Peter Plate

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  • Bibliography:
    12 Books
  • First Book:
    May 1990
  • Latest Book:
    June 2023
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Books in Order: 12 titles

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  • Night of the Short Eyes

    San Francisco is on the verge of collapse in this gritty, grimy noir set in a near-future that gets closer every second. Former San Francisco Literary Laureate Peter Plate who taught himself to write fiction during eight years squatting in aband...

  • With Death Laughing

    It’s Christmastime in the Southland in this near-future vision of 21st century California. Our narrators, an ex-con turned pistol-carrying priest, and Sugar Child, a halfway house resident, have just met. The priest is a donations solicitor for Ble...

  • Dirty in Cashmere

    Ricky Bellamy is shot in the head by a vigilante at the corner of Geneva and Mission in San Francisco. He’s declared brain-dead and hooked up to life support, but ten months later he emerges from his coma. The bullet stays lodged in his head -- ino...

  • Elegy Written on a Crowded Street

    Welcome to San Francisco: the first fully gentrified city in America.May Jones is a bail bondswoman, someone who makes her living by putting people back onto the streets. Her most recent client, a young black woman, is on trial for the murder of her ...

  • Soon the Rest Will Fall

    It seems like everyone in California is going to prison these days. And as another hot Christmas approaches in San Francisco, Robert Grogan and Slatts Calhoun are about to make the street after a stretch in San Quentin. On the inside Robert and Slatt...

  • Fogtown

    One foggy day in San Francisco brings together bloody ghosts, a dandyish thug, capricious cops, a suicidal punk rocker, a hyperliterate slumlord, and a sweet old lady sent by God to hand out cash from a hijacked armored car. In Fogtown, Peter Plate u...

  • Snitch Factory

    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 So...

  • The Angels of Catastrophe

    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 Ca...

  • Police and Thieves

    The narrator of Police and Thieves, Doojie, is a small-time dealer who lives in a garage behind a laundromat with his two partners in crime. They sell dope of questionable quality at reasonable prices. But when one night Doojie sees a renegade cop sh...



  • Darkness Throws Down the Sun

  • Black Wheel of Anger

    Perhaps the most important anarchist prose writer around today. This is a collection of three long stories, re-examining American history, forgotten moments in the class struggle, and the psyche of a seriously messed up nation. Dissident, angry and t...

  • Romance of the American Living Room

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Peter Plate has published 12 books.

Peter Plate does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Night of the Short Eyes, was published in June 2023.

The first book by Peter Plate, Black Wheel of Anger, was published in May 1990.

No. Peter Plate does not write books in series.
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