This is a nice composite of Lapham's earlier styles. Like Somewhere Out West (#2) it tells a cohesive story and like The Innocence of Nihilism (#1) it plays with structure and time. But it combines the two methodologies. The result is the strongest volume of Stray Bullets since the original. There are great characters here and (more importantly) great tension. The result is lovely (and leaves many of our characters in states where we want to know more about what happens to them!).