Hello, and thanks for visiting The Vigilante Author.
I’m Robert Bidinotto, and you’re probably here because you’ve read or heard about my bestselling debut thriller, HUNTER, or its award-winning and hot-selling sequels, BAD DEEDS and WINNER TAKES ALL. On this site, you’ll find lots of information about those novels; about their unique hero, Dylan Hunter — “the new face of justice”; about why I wrote the books and for whom; and about future books planned for this series of thrillers.
It won’t surprise you to learn that the term “vigilante author” refers — first of all — to me, as author of a tale about a colorful urban vigilante. But I also had other meanings in mind when I selected that term to be the title for this blog.
The “lone-wolf hero” — the man who takes on a corrupt Establishment and operates outside the law, in order to right injustices — is an iconic character in fiction, going back many hundreds of years. In his classic work, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell — the late, famous expert in mythology — showed just how pervasive this figure is, across time and cultures. To be sure, not all of Campbell’s heroes are “vigilantes”; but many of them act apart from, or opposed to, the society around them, breaking “the rules,” if not the laws. Even though they all don’t indulge in violent acts of retribution, they’re nonetheless cut from a psychological cloth similar to those who do.
To celebrate this archetypal hero, I aim to feature here other past and contemporary writers of vigilante fiction, as well. I’ll discuss film and TV versions of this archetypal hero, too.
Author photo by Debbie Scott
So, relax, sit back, and take a look around. You’re about to enter a world different from the one you probably inhabit. It’s a world of daring heroes — of men and women who courageously defy phony “authorities,” corrupt institutions, and senseless rules — of characters, both real and imaginary, that think boldly and act bravely in the pursuit of justice.
Welcome to the world of Dylan Hunter . . . and The Vigilante Author.
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