Saying that he "researched" I didn't mean that he researched the original novel or characters. I read enough to doubt it. But he includes in his book such details of criminal business that he couldn't invent himself. That made me think that he read something about organized crime, maybe only popular - I don't know. Nothing else implied.
It didn't make him so much more believeable expert as he thought, though.
By the way, about Puso's approaching Mafia, don't you think that Mafiosi, his fellows-Italians, would rather tell something about "Our Thing" to him than to a German-Irish?
With hope that I'm at last intelligible... :rolleyes:
[/b][/quote]...even so, MW's background would not have made this a good book. In fact, if you extend the logic that certain abilities are biologically linked, you enter into some very dangerous turf. Yes, being of Italian origin may have made the content richer, but crap is still crap whether you eat a sword fish with butter sauce or animal crackers. If MW was Italian, then GFR might have more cultural protein, but it would not smell any better.