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The Red Dog Conspiracy series centers a crime family, and is intended for adults.
Tropes and warnings
(I have blacked out major spoilers. Some spoilers apply to chapters not yet published! Read at your peril.)
Tropes
Ambiguously evil - An offer you can't refuse - Anti-hero - Anti-villain - Arranged marriage - Bewildering punishment - Black market - Broken bird - Buy them off - Can't kill you, still need you - Closed circle - Cool Airship - Crapsack world - Criminal convention - Culture clash - Dark and troubled past - Deliberate values dissonance - Determinator - Determined widow - Disproportionate retribution - Domed hometown - Do with him as you will - Driven to suicide - Fish out of water - Flashback echo - Flashback nightmares - Feuding Families - Gangland Drive-By - Gayngster - Gentleman adventurer - Gilded cage - Gorgeous period dress - Gray vs Gray morality - Hardboiled private detective (genderflipped) - High-functioning alcoholic - Honor among thieves - I am your father - Impossibly low neckline - Indy ploy - In love with the gangster's girl - I want my beloved to be happy - Kicking ass in all her finery - King of thieves - Living a double life - Love dodecahedron - Mafia princess - Magnificent bastard - Minor crime reveals major plot - Mob boss suit fitting - Mob war - Neighborhood-Friendly Gangsters - Opposites attract revenge - Police are useless - Prince Charming wannabe - Protection racket (on a city-wide scale) - PTSD - Revenge - "Rise and fall" Gangster arc - Sadist - Secret-keeper - Serial killer - Sins of our fathers - Spirited young lady - Stockholm Syndrome - Survivor guilt - The Casanova - The Chessmaster - The Consigliere - The Don - The Hunter becomes the hunted - The Mafia - The Mob Boss is Scarier - The Queenpin - The Sociopath - The Syndicate - Those magnificent flying machines - Totalitarian Gangsterism -Villain in a white suit - Villain with good publicity - Xanatos Speed Chess (by our antagonist)
From TVTropes.org
Warnings
Alcoholism - Animal injury and death - Assassination attempt - Attempted rape - Betrayal - Captivity - Child abduction - Child abuse (implied and in flashback) - Consent issues - Deceit - Disability - Disaster - Domestic violence - Gaslighting - Gore - Gun suicide - Gun violence - Illness - Infidelity - Knife violence - Language - Main character in peril - Major character death - On-screen death - Opium use - Sexual situations (most are fade to black) - Substance abuse (tobacco, alcohol, drugs) - Suspense - Terror
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