The Barbary Coast Incidents

About the Book

San Francisco is in turmoil at the dawn of the new Millennium as rival factions resort to intimidation, arson and murder to gain control of China Basin and the rest of the old waterfront. Caught in the crossfire is Pete Douglas, the young owner of the Lighthouse Café, who is betrayed by his wife, pursued by a gigantic Samoan, savaged by half-crazy skinheads, threatened by a ruthless old heiress, and baffled by an enigmatic young woman who tantalizes and vanishes and reappears, making Pete question his own sanity.

About the Author

An avid hiker and sailor, Jim Fetler is the author of Impossible Appetites, a prize-winning collection of short stories. His fiction has appeared in The Atlantic, Commentary, The Paris Review and elsewhere, and has been anthologized in Full Measure: Modern Short Stories on Aging (Graywolf Press); The Iowa Award: The Best Stories from Twenty Years (University of Iowa Press); and Contemporary West Coast Stories (Globe Pequot Press). He lives in Northern California and can frequently be found sailing his small sloop on San Francisco Bay.