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.