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Hate, plot, kill. Hate, plot, kill. Hate, plot, kill. The puppets change. Some actors become puppets. Always the same few people behind the scenes. The length of the book hammers in the repetition without adding anything new.

The average length of a sentence feels like 5 words. Repetition, repetition, repetition. Language sounding like continuous fire. Listening to it as an audiobook makes this even more intense. And exhausting. One character blends into the next. All are hard-boiled or victims about to die. One minute killing Vietnamese for drugs, the next setting barracks in Cuba on fire, behind the scenes with Hoover followed by Vegas.