All of this talk about whether or not Batman is just a psycho who has
managed to channel his bad behavior towards good ends (and even have it
sanctioned, unlike Dexter), got me thinking about one of my favorite
themes: the blurred line between the crime fighter and the criminal he's
after. Given that, I'm blanking on examples. I'm talking about things
like the Eastwood movie, Tightrope, where the viewer sometimes has
trouble seeing much difference between the cop and the criminal, maybe
Internal Affairs (with Garcia and Gere), where the bad guy manges to
make the good guy dirty himself. Are there book equivalents? By the
way, I'm not talking about stuff like Derek Ramond's Factory series;
yes, the cop is twisted, haunted, but there's never a sense he is not
for good.
Mark
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