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Plot Summary of Vigilante Justice
"Someone believes he can solve the drug problem by killing all the users. When one of the victims is the brother of Gary Drake, a cop with HIV, he becomes so obsessed that he loses his job on the police force and sacrifices a potential romance to seek vengeance. Is he driven by guilt, justice, or revenge?"
Michael LaRocca, Resident Scholar


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Review Analysis of Vigilante Justice
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Plot
How difficult to spot villain? - Challenging
Time/era of story: - 1980's-1999
Medical Thriller Yes
Medical Plotlets: - poisoning
Disaster, natural or nuclear Yes
What % of story relates directly to the mystery, not the subplot? - 50%
Special suspect? - best friend
Murder of certain profession? - criminals
Kind of investigator - police procedural, American
Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Crime Thriller Yes
Murder Mystery (killer unknown) Yes

Main Character
Gender - Male
Profession/status: - police/lawman
Age: - 20's-30's
Eccentric/Mental: Yes
Eccentric: - obsessed
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
How much violence does he/she use? - a significant amount
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - physically sick

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 40's-50's
Profession/status: - police/lawman
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - a little/some
Motive of antagonist - revenge
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - Deep South
Misc setting - prison

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
How many deaths? - 8 or more
Unusual forms of death - poisoning
Is this an e-book? Yes
Unusual form of death? Yes
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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