vigilantes

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vigilantes

Darkly dreaming Dexter

a novel
2004
Dexter Morgan feels the murders he commits are justified since he only kills Miami's worst criminals and deviants, but his sense of pride and accomplishment are threatened when a second serial killer arrives, copying Dexter's style and implicating him in more murders.

The priest's graveyard

2011
Danny Hansen, having left his home after a war took the life of his mother and become a priest in America, spends his time showing powerful people who manipulate the law the errors of their ways, meets Renee Gilmore, a woman who is on a mission to destroy a man who made her his victim, and together they search for him, without realizing the path they are on may end very badly for both of them.

Liberation

being the adventures of the Slick Six after the collapse of the United States of America
2008
Marco Angelo Oliveira breaks out of prison determined to continue his life of crime; but he meets with opposition from the Aardvark, a mob boss who has taken over New York City in a nation that has suffered economic and social collapse.

Wyatt Earp

a vigilante life
A biography of Wyatt Earp that seeks to dispel the Hollywood image that has made a hero of him and instead realistically portray him as an opportunist who played both sides of the law and only sought to improve his reputation later in life after he became nationally known for his involvement in a scandal about the fixing of a heavyweight prize fight in 1896.

The Ox-Bow incident

2004
When a rancher is reported murdered by cattle rustlers, the people of Ox-Bow decide to take justice into their own hands and lynch the alleged killers. Includes discussion questions.

Me and Gallagher

a novel
1982
A young man looks back on the formation in 1863 of the Montana vigilante movements and on the part he played, at the age of fifteen, in the bloody events that followed.

Bad monkeys

2007
Jane Charlotte, arrested for murder, is referred to a psychiatrist who tries to figure out what is really going on after Jane explains that as a member of a secret group devoted to fighting evil, she is responsible for getting rid of irredeemable persons--otherwise known as "Bad Monkeys.".

El Salvador and Guatemala

2013
Examines acts of genocide, crimes against humanity, and other instances of extreme persecution, with an emphasis on events taking place in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in El Salvador and Guatemala.

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