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Aaron Palmer

Aaron Palmer is a retired sociologist living in Phoenix, Arizona. He lived in the Taylor Street/Little Italy neighborhood of Chicago for twenty-five years, from 1972 to 1997. During that time, he conducted more than four hundred in-depth and confidential interviews with the neighborhood people, as well as interviews with Chicago Police officers and FBI agents. The knowledge and insights gleaned from these interviews became the basis for his fictional stories.