Montreal is noir, the birthplace of Leonard Cohen, Saul Bellow, Michel Tremblay, Mordecai Richler, & Oscar Peterson. It`s unsettling, it`s subversive, it`s palpable, but it`s never obvious. Montreal`s long history is dominated by cultures coming together, almost. & coming apart, almost. & continuing, always. Here, French & English writers explore the underside of the Sin City of the north.