Coram shares at least two qualities with William Faulkner: He's a great story teller, and his style is lush with character, details, and local ambiance. But don't let the Atlanta setting or the Olympics time period discourage you. This is a tightly crafted adventure that is just begging to become a motion picture. As with all of Coram's novels, you'll learn quite a bit about modern urban police work to boot.