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Re: Darkness and Light |
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07-14-2010, 02:40 PM

There was a Brian Sanderson book (forget the name, his newest one) where the bad guys hid in plain sight.

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SpoilerOne of the protagonists, a princess, went to the enemy city, got into contact with one of her spies, and found him dying. There were two men there who said they were the dying man's mercenaries, and that they would let the contract slide onto the princess. The whole way the talkative one would make quips like 'You know what I hate about being a mercenary? Everyone thinks you're a murderer/liar/unscrupulous etcetc' and joke about it and get on very well with the princess. And at the end, when the princess finds out that yes, they are indeed murderers, liars, and unscrupulous (and one of them was a sociopath) as well as having manipulated her quite neatly -- it was a huge surprise to me. It was very nicely done.

A bad guy can do his own dirty work if he wants to (just not the typical way of subtle antagonists), but he'd have to be careful it never is shown to light, and if it is that it is construed as noble or necessary.

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