This book was based in the Tenderloin of San Francisco. It is set in the time of Jim Jones and the
mass suicide/mass murder in Guyana ,
1978. The story is peripherally related
to that event and the fixed election and ensuing murder of Mayor Moscone and
Harvey Milk.
Sleeper Hayes is an ex-hippie who dabbles deeply in drugs,
drinks and gambling. He also is an unrepentant
fixer or perhaps do-gooder. His efforts
to do favors for friends who are in trouble leads him to getting shot, stabbed
and beaten.
Sleeper helps enough people that he has people in the
strangest places owing him favors. The
author's description of the life of the Tenderloin residents is colorful.
This was loosely historical fiction.
I enjoyed the book.
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