A cult hardboiled noir classic of crime punishment and the search for a meaningful life with
an Introduction by Stuart Evers 'Tough and vital ... Hard Rain Falling roars through dim
Western streets like an articulate Hells Angel looking for a fight' The New York Times When
small-time teenage criminal Jack Levitt becomes friends with Billy Lancing a young Black pool
hustler neither imagines they will meet again years later in St Quentin Prison - or that only
one of them will make it out. But what does freedom really mean if you can't escape the hand
life has always dealt you? Don Carpenter's shocking poignant novel is a story of crime
punishment and trying to make sense of it all of being down but never quite out. 'Explosive
... Tarmac-tough dialogue and road-novel delinquent action is customised with a tender
intensity ... Carpenter brings gold to the grit' Boyd Tonkin Independent 'A unique read
violent tender inexorable and melancholic ... The small lives contained herein are
indelible' Richard Price
