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I was, for one thing, suspicious of the media hype--to which we are now, of course, contributing--around these books, and I still dread the eventual movies and the inevitable merchandising frenzy that will follow.
Pistone, who dislikes the officious superiors in his FBI "family," boasts of having his hooks in Lefty, but comes to dread (and delay) the moment when he'll be pulled out of Operation Donnie Brasco and called upon to bring about his mentor's demise.
The score, by Ryuichi Sakamoto, is full of post-Romantic film noir gloom, but Sakamoto also introduces a more modern, free-floating anxiety, a New Age dread that deepens the horror--that takes it out of the whodunit class and into the "Can we ever believe what we see?"
America, after all, elected Nixon--and not despite the paranoia and dread that runs through this book but, in some ways, because of it.
The public health people understandably dread creating more drunks, more broken marriages, more crime, more car wrecks.