Andrew Vachss wrote novels about seriously violent people doing seriously violent things. Usually the people who die are at least marginally worse than the people doing the violence. I wouldn't say the main character of *SignWave* exactly good, but he has his rules and he lives by them--and by the end he seems very much as though he's who he feels he should be, maybe taking some last step out of darkness. There's a strong whiff of noir here. I should probably read more Vachss.
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