Marking the 100th anniversary of Simenon's birth, this classic reissue follows on the steam of a major marketing campaign from Chorion, including a radio series scheduled for 2003. Here readers meet Steve Hogan, an ordinary man in an ordinary life, whose night of horror begins with the brief radio announcement that a prisoner had escaped from Sing Sing. Finding himself once again in a tunnel of depression, Hogan's one act of defiance, to enter the neon-lit bar and leave his wife alone in the car outside, will lead him to quiet but terrifying night...and the dread of what morning may bring.