Perfectly Flawed

Let?s start with what it doesn?t mean. We?re not talking about villains, whom readers are invited to revile with relish?who are deliciously unattractive on purpose. Neither are we talking about the anti-hero: a protagonist the author has clearly portrayed as malign but for whom, curiously, we root anyway. An endearing mobster, Tony Soprano is an archetypal anti-hero. Ditto Calvin Piper in my fourth novel Game Control?a renegade demographer whose modest proposal to solve human overpopulation by killing two billion people overnight makes the man and his festive misanthropy no less beguiling. Anti-heroes aren?t actually unattractive?literarily, they function exactly like heroes?but morally they shouldn?t be attractive. We feel a little guilty about cheering them on, which is part of the pleasure, that daring little dance on the dark side.

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