Everybody knows how to spot an undercover cop. Right?Doing life, six months at a time . . .You think the gun makers will always win?When you can't trust your own grandmother, that's noir. Rock and a Hard Place is back with issue 9, featuring a dirty dozen tales of woe and misfortune from some of crime and dark fiction's finest, including: Jennifer BernardiniC.W. BlackwellDavid HagertyWilliam KitcherNick KolakowskiMike McHoneMichael PenncavageEmilee PradoRichard RisembergElena E. SmithArcher Sullivanand Mike Zimmerman Rock and a Hard Place is the literary magazine that comes face-to-face with our gritty truths and hard luck realities, and doesn't blink.