/lit/ - Literature

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There is a very real criminal element, but the story is more about the protagonist's realization that there is some pervasive, malevolent force that allows this kind of crime to perpetuate itself under the surface of the idyll, and even he is subject to it as he willingly assists in a dangerous criminal investigation and watches most of his friends from his youth crumble and rot due to this influence. Or he's a total nut who read too much occult nonsense and is chasing windmills and interfering with an undercover sting operation.Either way, there's an occluded layer beyond the base motivations for what is at work trying to make him revert to old ways, and it may be related to a viking biker cult selling dodgy synthetic drugs.