Down Comes the Night is the thirteenth installment in the novella series, A Grifter’s Song.
A Grifter’s Song is a novella anthology series created and edited by Frank Zafiro. The series features a pair of grifters, Sam and Rachel, who are lifelong grifters in their late thirties. Their past is as shadowy as their present, but we know that they pulled a major long con on the mafia in Philadelphia, and now they are on the run. While one or the other may speak longingly of that quiet life in a beach house somewhere at the end of the rainbow, we all know that the likelihood is that they will never leave this life, unless it is in a box. They are who they are, and so they continue to find and exploit marks, trying to stay one step ahead of the mobsters bent on vengeance.
Each episode is a standalone story but is also part of the meta tale that evolves over the course of the series. The first (and others) was written by Frank Zafiro, with other authors contributing to remainder of the series.
The series begins in The Concrete Smile. Thirteen episodes later, their adventures continue in Down Comes the Night. Sam and Rachel finally have a piece of leverage to use against the gangster who is pursuing them. Will their efforts to free themselves be successful, or will everything finally collapse around them? As the pair rushes from one cache of hidden money to another, trying to piece together enough to lie low, the danger rises and threatens to eventually envelope the two lovers. Is this the end?