/lit/ - Literature

1. Tell the story in the first-person omniscient.
2. Have the protagonist (the one telling the story) get everyone's attention during some storytime: a long road trip, a campfire, a drinking session, a police interview room
3. (Think "Usual Suspects" if it helps. You want that kind of tension and atmosphere. Your protagonist is smarter than everyone, even the reader)
4. Have a scene where he's doing some thing seemingly nefarious. Have him do something violent to someone. Suddenly twist the reader's affections for him by having him explain WHY...this person was involved in the "most unnatural murder" of someone dear to him.
5. Tell the tale, with him hunting down and avenging his murdered loved-one. Go for the sympathy angle, with his victims revealing more and more of the gruesome details of how they murdered this person.
6. By the end of the story, the reader will have completely empathized with the protagonist, and his avenging murders, because they've practically lived the original crime through the victims' confessions.