IN COLD BLOOD. I think Capote portrayed Perry Smith as being less cold-blooded than he really was. [View all]

When the two killers went in the Clutter house and murdered the family, the way Perry tells the story there were several times when he almost backed out of it, but he didn't. Or, that's how the story is told. Maybe Smith told Capote
that, maybe Capote was embellishing the story.

There were a lot of other things that Capote embellished, which doesn't take away from it being a really good book.