<p><strong><em>New York Times </em>Bestseller</strong></p><p><strong>“Smart and funny and all sorts of raunchy in the best way.” — <em>San Francisco Chronicle</em></strong></p><p><strong>Repeat <em>New York Times </em>bestselling author Christopher Moore returns to the mean streets of San Francisco in this outrageous follow-up to his madcap novel <em>Noir</em>.</strong></p><p>San Francisco, 1947. Bartender Sammy “Two Toes” Tiffin and the rest of the Cookie’s Coffee Irregulars—a ragtag bunch of working mugs last seen in <em>Noir</em>—are on the hustle: they’re trying to open a driving school; shanghai an abusive Swedish stevedore; get Mable, the local madam, and her girls to a Christmas party at the State Hospital without alerting the overzealous head of the S.F.P.D. vice squad; all while Sammy’s girlfriend, Stilton (a.k.a. the Cheese), and her “Wendy the Welder” gal pals are using thei