His latest book, Chicago, is a novel set in the 1920s about two newspaper writers working at the Chicago Tribune. One falls in love with an Irish girl who is gunned down while they are together. He spins into a self-destructive cycle of alcohol to dull the pain, but then sets on a course to try to figure out who killed her and why.
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Sit-down with David Mamet, Part 2