The Adventures of Fargo Lefty (sometimes listed as just Fargo Lefty) is a self-published action thriller novel by Hanz DeBartolo, released in 2015. It was sold through Amazon's Createspace print-on-demand services and briefly mentioned on the Dr. Phil episode "My Brother Changed His Name to Sexy Vegan, Wears Speedos in Public, and Is Spending My Mom's 11 Million Dollar Inheritance".
Fargo Lefty (an Author Avatar of DeBartolo himself) is a twenty-something-year-old man from a wealthy family who lives a hedonistic life involving copious drug and alcohol consumption. He resides in a house purchased by his parents, where he hangs out with his vegan pals. When he becomes troubled by the amount of animal abuse in the world around him, Fargo acquires a "357 Magnum revolver" and begins murdering people who mistreat animals.
This book contains examples of the following tropes:
- Animal Wrongs Group: Fargo enjoys murdering "animal abusers" and sees it not as a last resort, but as a necessary knee-jerk practice. The author himself states of the back cover blurb of the book that the story is just supposed to be fun, so there's no indication of how deeply the reader is to dwell on this.
- Big Bad: People who abuse animals, mistreat animals and kill animals for consumption.
- Drugs Are Good: Fargo and his friends use a lot of drugs, including cocaine, and the book does not suggest anything negative about it.
- Gaining the Will to Kill: Fargo begins murdering people who he sees as cruel to animals.
- The Hedonist: Fargo; averted heavily when Fargo begins murdering animal abusers and chasing them down with a gun.
- Idle Rich: Fargo comes from a wealthy family and has no employment, living in a house his parents bought him and living a hedonistic lifestyle of drug use, sex and alcohol consumption.
