Realistic dialogue is a noteworthy feature of the novel, and Leonard has said that he got "lots of good Mafia dialogue" from the 1983 Philadelphia crime commission's report. He tries a significantly new narrative technique in the novel, presenting an episode from a variety of points of view: "I would write it from one.....
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