Chapter 4, Again

One more thing about Chapter 4 of Monteleone’s Guide: one of the stories I’ve been thinking about fits comfortably in the Action/Adventure type.

The story basically goes like this:

A corrupt president wants to fight drug lords, but just the ones who are not his friends. A special paramilitary squad is trained to combat those gangsters –we will see the special training they endure, of course. Some of their adventures involve their victorious battles against organized crime. Nevertheless, the squad leader is not stupid, and begins to understand that some drug lords are never fought. He, and his squad, do some research, and find out that indeed the president himself is involved in drug crime, and they have been the president’s –and some of the drug lords’— puppets. They swear revenge, draft an elaborate plan, and at the end are able to uncover the corruption net.

End of the story (there might be a sequel, of course).

What is important here is a basic question: will I be able to write novel after novel on the same subject? Do I want to be typecast as an adventure/action writer?

The thing I like about the subject is the wide array of topics linked to the main plot. For example, during the squad training, I will be able to study survival techniques –which I love since my boy-scout years—, martial arts and meditation, strategy, weapons, and all those things I like but have never really studied.

The characters’ background can also be interesting: they come from different social, economic, educational strata. This can be the sociological part of the story, and can be done when presenting all the characters, including mobsters, politicians, their wives, their employees, and so on.

Of course, other main topics can be politics, economics, and the like.

It doesn’t have to be the typical action novel. It can be told from different perspectives, with different narrators.

Humor? This is not the best genre for expressing it but some circumstances can be found, why not? Maybe one of the characters can be funny.