My honest question in that scenario is: why does the villain need to involve a ton of people in this? If he's brilliant and diabolical and it's HIS personal vendetta anyway, why doesn't he just hare off on his own (with possibly one or two trusted people) and act the part of an average guy? Heck, even if you're dead-set on having him in a warehouse, he could have actually bought said warehouse under a fake name, hired normal people to work in a cover op--which works great if he's a racist, actually; he could hire all people of color, which wouldn't look strange for a warehouse anyway, and then he has the dual bonus of a) making his cover op look legit and b) getting the main to kill a lot of innocent non-whites for him, should the main decide to blow things up. Bottom line is, I see no reason why he'd involve a ton of people from his own foreign organization: this could easily be a one-man job.

At the top you asked the question from the point of view of the main. To get an answer, tho, you're going to have to look from the villain's POV. If you were this villain, where would your headquarters be? Would you have headquarters at all?

Follow-up: what sort of person is your main? What sort of resources do they have? How quickly will they latch onto the fact that someone is actually out for them (putting myself in the villain's shoes, again, if I was gunning to drive someone crazy I would definitely let them stew in their own growing depression and paranoia rather than put my own face at the front of their misery--that's a recipe for anger, not insanity)? And--the question that really should be asked in any book of this type--why don't they just tell the police?

(Assuming you are still needing help on this issue, of course; if you've resolved it already let me know and I'll shut up.)

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> My honest question in that scenario is: why does
> the villain need to involve a ton of people in
> this?...Bottom
> line is, I see no reason why he'd involve a ton of
> people from his own foreign organization: this
> could easily be a one-man job.

Yeah--it more or less is. There's the baddy (Benton for lack of a better current name) and his two or three henchmen.

If
> you were this villain, where would your
> headquarters be? Would you have headquarters at
> all?

Well...he has headquarters because the organazation already has bases around the country...International crime syndicate sort, y'know, smuggling, black ops, the works. As to why he has a hq in this particular city...hm. That might take some thinking.
Any suggestions?

> Follow-up: what sort of person is your main? What
> sort of resources do they have? How quickly will
> they latch onto the fact that someone is actually
> out for them?

About the third time someone tried to kill him--first there was "food poisoning" at a resaurant, then someone almost hit him in a car, and then someone attacked him at work.


> And--the question that really should be asked in
> any book of this type--why don't they just tell
> the police?

They do tell the police. But it's sort of a "Oh, there's an international hit man out to kill you because your grandfather betrayed the gang? Well, we'll get right on it, *wink wink*" thing.

A possibility, Trav, for your villain's HQ in the particular city, could be that the laws are more lenient towards him there or that he has the ability to manipulate high- up people to look the other way while he continues his operations.





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Yeah have you?

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