YMMV / Halfway to the Grave (Night Huntress #1)

• Complete Monster: The Human Trafficking network is a nebulous criminal conspiracy headed by a vicious gangster and backed by a corrupt Ohio public official:
  • Hennessey is a Master Vampire who functions as the ringleader of the human trafficking network backed by Governor Ethan Oliver. Adopting a veneer of geniality, Hennessey works with his co-conspirator to capture vulnerable women—including drug dealers, drug addicts, vagrants, and prostitutes—forcing them into wretched lives as involuntary prostitutes, blood producers, and human livestock. Feared by subordinates and associates alike, Hennessey subjects those who would betray him to slow and painful deaths, with one informant committing suicide rather than face Hennessey's wrath. Discovering Cat Crawfield's identity as his attempted killer, Hennessey kills the former's grandparents and captures her mother in order to lure her into a trap alongside his nemesis, Bones Russell. When Cat and Bones confront him, Hennessey mocks the latter for his constant pursuit.
  • Governor Ethan Oliver is the benefactor of the human trafficking network, and a sleazy, corrupt, and ambitious figure who hides under a good reputation. Originally frequenting brothels in order to rape women, Oliver eventually begins colluding with Hennessey—destroying any documents relating to missing women captured by the human trafficking network, and having the destitute and disenfranchised trafficked—in order to further his own political career. After his co-conspirator is eliminated, Oliver has a hospital bombed to eliminate the rescued victims in a bid to silence them. When confronted by Cat Crawfield, Oliver holds her at gunpoint, and boasts about his intentions to become the President of the United States, as well as to continue the process he started.