The result was a novel titled THE POWER OF THE DOG, which is already legendary only ten years after its release. He saw well beyond the banality of evil in that monstrous picture. They are the perfect antagonists for authors who don't want to bother creating one.ĭon Winslow is, to my knowledge, the first crime fiction author who though it was interesting that people south of the border beheaded their enemies on YouTube and slaughtered their entire families on fucking principle. Over the last decade, the Mexican drug cartels have been the stand-in cardboard antagonist in countless crime novel and why not, right? They execute innocent people on principle only they live by, they are arrogant, faceless and seemingly omnipotent. It's boring and it can drain the conflict out of the most promising premise. An embodiment of evil, ready to rape and murder for the immediate satisfaction of his each and every desire, whatever they might be. There's a common mistake most novelist do at least once in their career: writing a lifeless antagonist.
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