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Plot
Tone of story - Dry-cynical
How difficult to spot villain? - Difficult, but some clues given
Time/era of story: - 1980's-1999
Spying/Terrorism Thriller Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets: - preventing/finding assassin
Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Legal Thriller Yes
Legal Plotlets - investigating murder of lawyer(s) - finding out whether someone is really guilty

Main Character
Gender - Male
Profession/status: - a lawyer creature
Age: - 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
How much violence does he/she use? - none
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 40's-50's
Profession/status: - criminal
Eccentric: Yes - obsessed - deluded - wild - eccentric - mentally ill - emotionally unstable
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - a substantial amount
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Setting
City? Yes
City: - Los Angeles
Misc setting - moving train

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - very gorey descriptions deaths/dead bodies
Sex Yes
What kind of sex: - actual description of sex
Unusual forms of death - asphyxiation - poisoning
Unusual form of death? Yes
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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