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The slap cracked through the restaurant like something mechanical breaking under too much pressure. It was quick, flat, ugly. Not the kind of sound anybody…

The slap split the room before most people understood what they had heard. Not a loud, cinematic crack. Not the sort of sound anyone could…

The slap cracked through the Sands Hotel dining room with the kind of sound that does not belong in a room built for linen tablecloths,…

The champagne struck Sammy Davis Jr. in the face so hard it broke the rhythm of the room. One second, he was in the center…

Dean Martin looked at the envelope for exactly two seconds. It landed between the two glasses with that soft, flat sound expensive paper makes when…

The old man did not fall gracefully. He hit the brick wall with his back first, shoulders taking the impact before the rest of him…

The pianist hit the floor first with his shoulder, then his hip, then the full awkward weight of a body that had simply run out…

The sound came first. Not a shout. Not the crash of a bottle or the kind of chaos that announces itself from half a block…

She turned her head away from Sammy Davis Jr.’s outstretched hand so smoothly that, for one disorienting second, the room almost agreed to pretend nothing…