I honestly love how you've gradually been revealing more and more of Maximus Savage's backstory over the course of several separate chapters; it's such a great way to bring everyone up to speed while still keeping the narrative going the whole time! I kind of feel bad for him in a way, but at the same time, I always keep in mind something that Rocket Raccoon said from Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), and I think I've referenced this already before:
"Everybody's got dead people! It's no excuse to get everyone else dead along the way!" -Rocket Raccoon, Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
It really just leads to a cycle, right? Of suffering, and of misery. And corruption, betrayal, and pretty much everything else in this case, with how Howard Vincent is towards Olivia and the rest of the FBI in general. Still, the second half of the chapter gave me a little hope, as Lockheed and Michaels are (apparently) starting to catch on. Let's just hope Vincent never learns of it. And speaking of that, Michaels's plan to use their tracker on Lynch and have him function as bait sounds like a very high-risk, high-reward kind of plan. Like they recapped, it'd need to rely on so many chance occurrences: Savage taking Lynch back to the hideout instead of killing him on the spot, Savage never discovering the tracker, and the length of Savage taking Lynch and "punishing" him taking less than two days. And combined with the fact that he's about to visit Augustus Bell at the moment.....yeah. I don't think he'll get around to that for a while.
I don't see a Lockheed/Sapphire Angel team-up ever successfully occurring again after the hotel room scene in the previous novel, so Michaels, the tracker, and the "use Lynch as bait" plan might be the FBI faction's best bet. Or maybe Sapphire Angel and her allies OR even Wayne Steele and the Justice Seekers might get to the Gang first. There's so many key players here, and Azari and the silver-eyed man aren't even the main threats yet.
I'll add the three factions and their known members to my notes so I don't slip up on what's going on. Or.....technically, it'd be four factions, counting the Savage Gang and everyone involved with them.
I honestly love how you've gradually been revealing more and more of Maximus Savage's backstory over the course of several separate chapters; it's such a great way to bring everyone up to speed while still keeping the narrative going the whole time! I kind of feel bad for him in a way, but at the same time, I always keep in mind something that Rocket Raccoon said from Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), and I think I've referenced this already before:
"Everybody's got dead people! It's no excuse to get everyone else dead along the way!" -Rocket Raccoon, Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
It really just leads to a cycle, right? Of suffering, and of misery. And corruption, betrayal, and pretty much everything else in this case, with how Howard Vincent is towards Olivia and the rest of the FBI in general. Still, the second half of the chapter gave me a little hope, as Lockheed and Michaels are (apparently) starting to catch on. Let's just hope Vincent never learns of it. And speaking of that, Michaels's plan to use their tracker on Lynch and have him function as bait sounds like a very high-risk, high-reward kind of plan. Like they recapped, it'd need to rely on so many chance occurrences: Savage taking Lynch back to the hideout instead of killing him on the spot, Savage never discovering the tracker, and the length of Savage taking Lynch and "punishing" him taking less than two days. And combined with the fact that he's about to visit Augustus Bell at the moment.....yeah. I don't think he'll get around to that for a while.
I don't see a Lockheed/Sapphire Angel team-up ever successfully occurring again after the hotel room scene in the previous novel, so Michaels, the tracker, and the "use Lynch as bait" plan might be the FBI faction's best bet. Or maybe Sapphire Angel and her allies OR even Wayne Steele and the Justice Seekers might get to the Gang first. There's so many key players here, and Azari and the silver-eyed man aren't even the main threats yet.
I'll add the three factions and their known members to my notes so I don't slip up on what's going on. Or.....technically, it'd be four factions, counting the Savage Gang and everyone involved with them.
Let's keep things rolling!