Another re-print this, first published back in 1979 as a follow-up to the 1975 appearance of the same author's Carlito's Way. Both books were filmed under the one title of Carlito's Way by Brian de Palma, and starring Al Pacino as the small-time hood doing his best to stay alive on the seedy back streets of New York. Torres himself grew up in Spanish Harlem and saw many of his friends end up in jail or worse, but he himself went on to study law, became a district attorney and is now a Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York. After Hours is a powerful piece of writing, its street-wise and sassy prose style eminently suited to its themes of crooked deals, drug dealing, violence and sudden death.