Authors: Domenic Stansberry
The Ancient Rain (29 page)
Meanwhile, the rain was falling. It was an old rain. Blood puddled in the rain along with the oil. There was the smell of gasoline in the air, but it didn't matter. It was a rain that had been falling for a long time. It didn't clean anything, but it kept falling anyway.
AUTHOR'S NOTE
This novel takes its title from a poem by San Francisco poet Bob Kaufman, “The Ancient Rain,” which appeared in a volume of poetry by the same title, originally published by New Directions in 1981. The brief appearance of Kaufman himself in these pages, and the videotape described, are apocryphal renderings and should not be regarded as biographical fact. Also, the activities of the Symbionese Liberation Army, and the events leading to their apprehension, have been fictionalized for the sake of this drama. This book is a work of the imagination, and all characters are fictitious.
Also by Domenic Stansberry
The Big Boom
Chasing the Dragon
Manifesto for the Dead
The Last Days of Il Duce
The Confession
The Spoiler
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.
THE ANCIENT RAIN.
Copyright © 2008 by Domenic Stansberry. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Stansberry, Domenic.
The ancient rain / Domenic Stansberry. â1st ed.
        p. cm.
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-36453-3
ISBN-10: 0-312-36453-9
1. Private investigatorsâFiction. 2. North Beach (San Francisco, Calif.)âFiction. I. Title.
PS3569.T3335A84 2008
813'.54âdc22
2007049768
First Edition: April 2008
eISBN 9781466857766
First eBook edition: October 2013
