Eight Million Ways to Die
Describe the antagonists in the novel, Eight Million Ways to Die.
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The villains are described as "urban types"—a Columbian drug dealer, a repressed minister hipped on sexual sin, a cop who wanted to kill his wife, a politician who wanted to become governor, an aid to a special prosecutor, an actor working as a bartender, and a salesman who wanted to get rid of his wife. The villains are often hypocrites, pretending to a legitimacy within the system. Unlike Scudder, they do not recognize that murder is not just a little corruption, that it is stepping across an irreversible boundary, a trespass that calls for exposure and vengeance.
Eight Million Ways to Die