The time is 1996. Our narrator, Coddy, a policeman, is underpaid, sleep-deprived, and overweight. Coddy’s partner, Bellamy, is homeless, living out of their shared squad car, littering the back seat with his dirty underwear and empty cigarette packs. Free Box and Barbie are squatters who rob Rainbow Health Foods at gunpoint for something to eat. From the junkies openly shooting up on stoops to the homeless men with their fleets of shopping carts piled high with garbage, Peter Plate’s Mission District is "a catechism in destruction," one that doesn’t end until someone is apprehended for an unsolved crime. A story about inner-city, west coast gentrification at the end of the 20th century.

In San Francisco's blood-stained Mission district, two impoverished and homeless Irish-American cops are on an odyssey, a quest for economic and sexual gratification. A neighborhood dominated by abandoned buildings becomes a war zone for transients, middle-class professionals and thieves in this story of repressed desires and pathological real estate envy.

Volume contains: 150 NY 526 (Hanna v. Conn. Mut. Life Ins. Co.) 150 NY 583 (D.G. Burton Co. v. Cowan) 150 NY 584 (McCormick v. Bklyn City R.R. Co.) 150 NY 584 (Fowler v. Wood) 151 NY 619 (Peo ex rel Washington Mills Co. v. Roberts) 151 NY 622 (Koepke v. Bradley) 151 NY 624 (Newton v. Central Vermont R.R. Co.) 151 NY 625 (Roulston v. Roulston)