It was all in the orchestration, he claimed: in knowing how and where to pitch each and every particular argument; who to intimidate; who to trust, who to flatter and court; when to underplay and exactly when to let out all the stops.
Source: The Investigation, Part I, Ch. 14, 1977.
-- Dorothy Uhnak, (Apr 24 1933-2006), US novelist, writer; Her shoot-from-the-hip memoir, Police Woman, blew the lid off the NYPD, recounting her decade as one of New York City's first female detectives.