| This time he's up against Merrick, the self-styled revenger who believes his daughter was snatched by paedophiles. |
| Sam must deal with a toxic revenger when the escaped soul of a chemical company's chief executive starts taking human lives. |
| Soldier, scholar, courtier, madman, dupe, revenger, Hamlet is all of them. |
| Crimes are horribly punished and the criminal and the revenger both end the tale dead. |
| They also deliver a version of how our man sees himself: a victim caught in an unyielding trap, and a mighty revenger compelled to fling himself against badness. |
| Caravaggio's Saint Jerome, alone, writing at a desk dominated by a skull, could be Middleton's morbid, isolated, intellectual revenger. |
