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* ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'': The sides that win the most in Elaine Cunningham's ''Starlight & Shadows'' series are the bad guys; [[VillainProtagonist Shakti Hunzrin]] and [[MagnificentBastard Lolth]]. In ascending order.]] The former wins a personal one by talking the protagonist into giving her the macguffin that's already served its purpose, the latter wins a landslide in that [[NiceJobBreakingitHero because of the protagonist, her people the drow can move about on the surface without their equipment being destroyed on the surface]].

* ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'': The sides that win the most in Elaine Cunningham's ''Starlight & Shadows'' series are the bad guys; [[VillainProtagonist Shakti Hunzrin and [[MagnificentBastard Lolth]]. In ascending order.]] The former wins a personal one by talking the protagonist into giving her the macguffin that's already served its purpose, the latter wins a landslide in that [[NiceJobBreakingitHero because of the protagonist, her people the drow can move about on the surface without their equipment being destroyed on the surface]].

* In Mick Herron's ''Literature/TheList'', a novella tied to the ''Literature/JacksonLamb'' series, [=MI5=] find deceased asset Dieter Hess’s secret bank account and eventually uncover the list of names for his 'ghost network'. They take the list at face value, try to leverage it to turn the tables on Hess’s contact, and inadvertently welcome a German [[DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent Triple Agent]] into their own ranks. Exactly as Hess’s unseen contact had planned. The only person who even had a hint of the truth was Jackson Lamb, and he’s been excluded from the plan to recruit her.

** It's worse in ''Literature/TheChildrenOfHurin'', even if the reader knows about the eventual intervention of the Valar. [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Glaurung]] may have been killed but he has caused Hurin's children [[spoiler:to [[DrivenToSuicide kill themselves]].]] Hurin unknowingly sets into motion events that will destroy two Elven Kingdoms. Though it is not in the book, Hurin ends up killing himself.
** No Valar intervention in ''Akallabêth''. Sauron manages to corrupt the Númenóreans' minds and causes eventually the destruction of Númenor, a paradise on Earth. To make things even worse, Eru - the Supreme Deity - does the actual destruction for Sauron. Yes, the physical form of Sauron dies with the cataclysm, but he reincarnates quickly. Unlike in ''Quenta Silmarillion'' the Valar ''do absolutely nothing'' to achieve even a BittersweetEnding. Note the last time the Valar intervened, it destroyed half the known world. The maps in the Silmarillion show that the world as of ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' books used to be way off to the east, rather than the extreme west of Middle Earth. They thus swore never to directly interfere again, though they do send emissaries to help guide the peoples of Middle Earth; the wizards.

* ''Literature/NoCountryForOldMen'': Anton Chigurh not only [[spoiler:kills the hero's wife]], but also [[spoiler:escapes town through a massive shootout and only gets a broken arm for his trouble. Plus, a bad guy kills the hero unseen, and on top of it all the cop fails to find Chigurh and retires.]]

** ''Literature/PetSematary''. [[spoiler: By the end of the novel, Rachel, Gage, and Jud are dead, while Louis is on the verge of a mental breakdown when Rachel comes back from the dead after the former buried her in the titular cemetery, leaving his ultimate fate ambiguous. Also, the fate of his daughter Ellie (who was left in Chicago with Rachel's parents) is left in the air. The [[Film/PetSematary1989 film]] leaves Louis' fate less ambiguous by having Rachel attack Louis with a knife as the film cuts to credits]].
** The end of the first ''Franchise/TheDarkTower'' book, ''Literature/TheGunslinger''. [[spoiler:Roland is [[SadisticChoice forced to choose between saving Jake or catching the man in black]]. Roland chooses to drop Jake. While he does catch the bad guy, one can argue that he destroyed himself doing so.]] Especially if you read it when it was released originally and did not know there would be sequels. And [[spoiler:the bad guy still ends up getting away soon afterward anyway before the book ends.]]
** ''Literature/SalemsLot'' ends badly: [[spoiler:though the Count has been destroyed, the entire population of 'Salem's Lot has been vampirized, while the hero and the only other survivor, a child, live new lives in Mexico.]] There's an epilogue which suggests hope, but later short stories by King reveal that [[spoiler:the attempt to destroy the town didn't work, and the vampire population is slowly growing as lost travelers fall prey to them.]]
** ''Literature/{{Cujo}}''. Although it is somewhat of a PyrrhicVictory in that the mad dog dies as well as the child ([[spoiler:[[SparedByTheAdaptation who lives in the movie version]]]]), it is strongly implied that the dog was possessed by the ghost of Frank Dodd (the serial killer from King's novel "The Dead Zone") who was apparently just coming back from the dead for one more murderous rampage.

* This trope is [[ForegoneConclusion the standard, rather than the exception]], for the MindControl genre of erotic fiction, as virtually every story in the genre either follows a protagonist that will [[DoomedProtagonist eventually succumb to mind control]], or a protagonist that's ''already'' enslaved and working as a pawn for the BigBad. When they don’t, it’s because [[VillainProtagonist the protagonist is the one doing the mind control]].

* ''Literature/ReynardTheFox'': In this medieval tale Reynard is the protagonist, but hardly an admirable character. He lies, cheats, murders, rapes, steals and betrays everybody and manages to get away with all of it in the end.

** ''Hero of Cartao'' is another story by Timothy Zahn where Darth Sidious and Kinman Doriana win. It has the Republic and the Trade Federation fight over a unique factory, with both sides being careful not to damage it. Just when it looks like the Republic is winning after all, they seemingly get reinforcements in the form of a transport carrying Jedi ... that [[SuicideAttack drops onto the factory]], destroying it, along with the Jedi's reputation in the region, including that of the protagonist even through he had nothing to do with it. The ship was actually remotely controlled by Sidious (or someone working for him), who considered the factory too dangerous and saw an opportunity to harm his enemies as well. Which worked even better than he may have expected, because countless civilians happened to still be in the building.
* ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'': Subverted in ''Hannibal''. In a sense the antagonist of the story is Mason Verger and does he lose, but Lecter is kind of a VillainProtagonist as a counterpoint to the genuinely heroic protagonist Clarice, and Lecter seduces Clarice to the dark side and, so far as we know, escapes justice forever.
* Creator/JohnGrisham's ''Literature/TheAppeal'': The small town lawyers are rendered bankrupt, the sympathetic banker loses everything, the evil company that ruined the town's water supply[[note]] in a state where appellate and Supreme Court judges are elected, not appointed[[/note]] and the lives of those "trailer park peasants" within its limits walks free with zero punishment, and the CorruptCorporateExecutive Carl Trudeau becomes even wealthier than before (the book ends with him wanting to make even more). All because the verdict led to the executive falling off the Forbes' coveted list of richest Americans.

** Also the end of the second book in the trilogy [[spoiler: where the SealedEvilInACan that the Lord Ruler defeated successfully tricks the heroine into unleashing it]].

* In ''Literature/CodexAlera'' the [[spoiler: Vord overrun Canea]] and the only thing our heroes can do is flee to fight the other Vord back home. The ending implies that in a hundred years or so, they'll come to Alera, so the heros start to rebuild and hopefully get ready for them.

* The most villainous character in ''Sarum'', Walter Wilson, succeeds in ruining all three of the families he carries grudges against, exploits and abuses his own poorer relations shamelessly, and elevates his family from penniless peasants to rising business tycoons, without suffering any worse payback than his son talking back to him and being snickered at by the king. While the Black Death ''does'' kill most of his immediate family, he honestly doesn't seem to care, and uses his own dying son to [[spoiler: deliberately infect the Shockleys]].
* In the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' series, Voldemort wins definitively at the end of ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire Goblet of Fire]]''. He seems to win at the end of ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince Half-Blood Prince]]'', [[spoiler:but the next book reveals that he actually played into Dumbledore's ThanatosGambit.]] In ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Order of the Phoenix]]'', the good guys win overall, but [[TonightSomeoneDies at a terrible cost]]. ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' ends with [[spoiler:Wormtail escaping, but also with him owing Harry a life debt and with Sirius avoiding the Dementor's Kiss]]. The first part of [[Film/HarryPotter the movie]] of ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]'' places its {{Cliffhanger}} ending during the book's DarkestHour where Voldemort has, for the moment, won, [[spoiler:having seemingly gained mastery of the most powerful wand in the world]].

* In ''Literature/{{Chimaera}}'', the last book in the ''Literature/WellOfEchoes'' quartet, [[spoiler: almost all magic in the world is destroyed, and the big bad becomes the God-Emperor of everything. The next series begins ten years later, which the big bad has spent enslaving the continent, and the main character has spent in the very bottom level of a prison.]] Yeesh.
* ''Literature/ThePendragonAdventure'': Saint Dane ends up victorious in several of the books; [[spoiler: ''The Reality Bug'', where Veelox falls, ''Black Water'', where Bobby and co. end up saving Eelong but greatly weaken the flumes and also leads to Courtney's injuries in the next book and thus to Mark befriending Andy, which finally leads to the worlds becoming integrated, Earth getting overrun by Dados and run by the Ravinians, and most of the worlds collapsing]]. By the end of the 9th book, it seems pretty clear that Saint Dane has achieved his goal. But overall, this trope is averted, as Bobby manages to save the day once and for all in the last book.

* ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'': The sides that win the most in Elaine Cunningham's ''Starlight & Shadows'' series are [[spoiler: the bad guys; [[VillainProtagonist Shakti Hunzrin]] and [[MagnificentBastard Lolth]]. In ascending order.]] The former wins a personal one by talking the protagonist into giving her the macguffin [[spoiler: that's already served its purpose]], the latter wins a landslide in that [[spoiler: [[NiceJobBreakingitHero because of the protagonist]], her people the drow can move about on the surface without their equipment being destroyed on the surface]].
* ''Literature/{{BZRK}}'' ends with [[spoiler: the AFGC successfully wiring several world leaders, including the President of the US, and BZRK crippled after everyone and their biots struggle to get out alive, let alone intact.]] The war's not over, but the bad guys absolutely dominated the battle.

** [[spoiler: Gothon's goal was to be reunited with his wife; [[TogetherInDeath he succeeded.]]]]
** [[spoiler: Kazebar wanted to steal Ben's power to travel between worlds and take over the universe. [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII He had a small measure of success.]]]]

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'': Despite the combined efforts of the entire world, Othinus gains her full power as a Magic God and immediately destroys the universe. This is ''not'' the end of the series, however. The main character Touma manages to survive (thanks to his [[AntiMagic power]]) and the next book details his efforts to fight back. [[spoiler:In the end, he's still unable to defeat her. However, Othinus realizes that, because of their shared experiences, he's now able to truly understand her as a person. This was her goal all along. She relents and restores the world to its original state.]]
* The finale of Creator/MarcusSakey's ''{{Literature/Brilliance}}'' trilogy is a nested series of these. [[spoiler:The civil war ends in an armistice, but no-one is punished for the atrocities committed; the government eludes punishment for systematic traumatizing of "brilliant" children in government academies, the redneck militias are forgiven for marching into the sole Brilliant holdfast on a campaign of genocide using those same children as ''human shields'', and said holdfast is forced to give up all further attempts at sovereignty and is the only party forced to pay reparations. After all of ''that'', the epilogue where Brilliant terrorist John Smith's decades-long plan is revealed to have ''worked perfectly'' is actually quite satisfying; the single carrier of the Brilliant upgrade virus is shown to have escaped, gained Brilliant abilities, entered the infectious stage, and embarks on a multi-state journey he estimates will infect over ''nine million others'' -- '''initially''' -- transforming every human into a Brilliant, save those over the age of 25 who lack the neuroplasticity to adapt to Brilliant abilities, which it will drive to suicide instead, destroying the culture that victimized Brilliants]].

* In Creator/EdgarAllanPoe's short story ''Literature/TheCaskOfAmontillado'' Fortunato is walled up alive in a catacomb by his "friend" Montresor due to some unspecified insult. And Montresor not only kills Fortunato, he gets away scot free.

* ''Literature/PleaseDontTellMyParentsImASupervillain'': The protagonists figure that the big ruckus during which the villains are supposed to steal a particularly powerful artifact allows them to theatrically [[HeelFaceTurn switch sides]]. They actually manage to defeat the other villains, and protect a bunch of civilians while they're at it, but then Penny gives Vera to a lonely Apparition. NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished, so The Apparition uses the robot to snatch the Orb and deliver it to Spider after all, while everybody thinks the kids have stolen it. Ultimately played merely as a BittersweetEnding, though, as they still got a lot of respect from both sides out of it.

* In Mick Herron’s ''Literature/TheList'', a novella tied to the Literature/JacksonLamb series, [=MI5=] find deceased asset Dieter Hess’s secret bank account and eventually uncover the list of names for his 'ghost network'. They take the list at face value, try to leverage it to turn the tables on Hess’s contact, and inadvertently welcome a German [[DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent Triple Agent]] into their own ranks. Exactly as Hess’s unseen contact had planned. The only person who even had a hint of the truth was Jackson Lamb, and he’s been excluded from the plan to recruit her.

* ''[[Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs Hannibal]]'' has rather a half-subverted, half-employed use of the trope. In a sense the antagonist of the story is Mason Verger and boy does he lose, but Lecter is kind of a VillainProtagonist as a counterpoint to the genuinely heroic protagonist Clarice, and Lecter seduces Clarice to the dark side and, so far as we know, escapes justice forever.
** In the movie version, things turn out better for Clarice. Hannibal still escapes (but has to lop off his own hand to do so).
* Played depressingly straight with the Creator/JohnGrisham novel ''Literature/TheAppeal''. The small town lawyers are rendered bankrupt, the sympathetic banker loses everything, the evil company that ruined the town's water supply[[note]] in a state where appellate and Supreme Court judges are elected, not appointed[[/note]] and the lives of those "trailer park peasants" within its limits walks free with zero punishment, and the CorruptCorporateExecutive Carl Trudeau becomes even wealthier then before (the book ends with him wanting to make even more). All because the verdict led to the executive falling off the Forbes' coveted list of richest Americans.

* R.A. Salvatore's ''[[Literature/TheLegendOfDrizzt The Pirate King]]'', The Crow becomes king of Luskan and Jarlaxle, who set the whole thing in motion at the cost of thousands of innocent lives, gets to become rich as the power behind the throne.
* Creator/ChinaMieville's ''[[Literature/BasLagCycle Bas-Lag]]'' novels tended to have a healthy helping of this, since Bas-Lag is a CrapsackWorld.

* In Literature/{{Chimaera}}, the last book in the ''Literature/WellOfEchoes'' quartet, [[spoiler: almost all magic in the world is destroyed, and the big bad becomes the God-Emperor of everything. The next series begins ten years later, which the big bad has spent enslaving the continent, and the main character has spent in the very bottom level of a prison.]] Yeesh.
* In the [[Literature/ThePendragonAdventure Pendragon]] books, Saint Dane ends up victorious in several of the books; [[spoiler: ''The Reality Bug'', where Veelox falls, ''Black Water'', where Bobby and co. end up saving Eelong but greatly weaken the flumes and also leads to Courtney's injuries in the next book and thus to Mark befriending Andy, which finally leads to the worlds becoming integrated, Earth getting overrun by Dados and run by the Ravinians, and most of the worlds collapsing]]. By the end of the 9th book, it seems pretty clear that Saint Dane has achieved his goal. But overall, this trope is averted, as Bobby manages to save the day once and for all in the last book.

* Further adding to ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'', the sides that win the most in Elaine Cunningham's ''Starlight & Shadows'' series are [[spoiler: the bad guys; [[VillainProtagonist Shakti Hunzrin]] and [[MagnificentBastard Lolth]]. In ascending order.]] The former wins a personal one by talking the protagonist into giving her the macguffin [[spoiler: that's already served its purpose]], the latter wins a landslide in that [[spoiler: [[NiceJobBreakingitHero because of the protagonist]], her people the drow can move about on the surface without their equipment being destroyed on the surface]].

* Literature/TrappedOnDraconica: Sort of.

* In ''Literature/ChristianNation'', the evangelical Christians in control of America in the AlternateHistory that follows UsefulNotes/SarahPalin becoming President succeed in bringing forth "one nation under God"...a [[BigBrotherIsWatchingYou Big Brother-ish]] theocracy where God's law and the Fifty Blessings supercede the Constitution, though it required military effort on the part of the Christians in order to achieve this. The only HopeSpot for the return of freedom and democracy in America is a small LaResistance movement called the Free Minds that the protagonist becomes a part of.
* In ''Literature/TheVaginaAssOfLuciferNiggerbastard'', the Latin League triumphs over the Fellowship Of The Vagina Ass.
** However, in Dick Niglet And The Shit Wizards Of Asscabin, Lord Analwart [[BreakingTheFourthWall breaks the fourth wall]], enters the TVAOLN universe & changes history so that the Fellowship is victorious.

* ''Literature/XeeleeSequence'': The Xeelee would eventually lose their epochal, multiversal war against the Photino Birds; fleeing through the Ring into a separate bulk multiverse as their original home would dies a slow, painful death of accelerated cosmic heat death.

** ''Literature/{{Cujo}}''. Although it is somewhat of a PyrrhicVillainy in that the mad dog dies as well as the child ([[spoiler:[[SparedByTheAdaptation who lives in the movie version]]]]), it is strongly implied that the dog was possessed by the ghost of Frank Dodd (the serial killer from King's novel "The Dead Zone") who was apparently just coming back from the dead for one more murderous rampage.

* In Mick Herron’s ''Literature/TheList'', a novella tied to the Literature/JacksonLamb series, [=MI5=] find deceased asset Dieter Hess’s secret bank account and eventually uncover the list of names for his 'ghost network'. They take the list at face value, try to leverage it to turn the tables on Hess’s contact, and inadvertently welcome a German [[DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent Triple Agent]] into their own ranks. Exactly as Hess’s unseen contact had planned. The only person who even has a hint of the truth is Jackson Lamb, and he’s excluded from the plan to recruit her.

* While ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' isn't finished yet, a [[BittersweetEnding bittersweet]] ending is about the best fans hope for, with good reason:
** The "War of the Five Kings" ended with the good guys either dead or out of power, and the bad guys (or ''[[GreyAndGrayMorality antagonists]]'' at least) winning.
** Then fifth book, "A Dance with Dragons" decidedly ends this way. Not just Bad, but the '''Worst''' guys triumph in almost all the significant parts of the narrative, and all they whatsoever sympathetic characters are either dead, imprisoned, on the run or out of power. However, [[WonTheWarLostThePeace those worst guys are starting to feel the squeeze]] and [[PyrrhicVictory reap the consequences of the actions that they committed to win.]]
** The Others have won every engagement they've fought directly, to the point that everything north of the Wall has been ceded to them. It's unclear what their long term plans or goals are, but considering the Seven Kingdoms are in no state to resist them whatsoever, it's hard to imagine it will end well.

* While it isn't clear yet what kind of ending the overall ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' saga will have (it will be [[BittersweetEnding bittersweet]] at best), the "War of the Five Kings" arc ended with the bad guys winning. Well, the ''[[GreyAndGrayMorality antagonists]]'' at least.
** As of the end of "A Dance with Dragons" this is most definitely so. Not just Bad, but the '''Worst''' guys triumph in almost all the significant parts of the narrative, and all they whatsoever sympathetic characters are either dead, imprisoned, on the run or otherwise removed from the game. However, [[WonTheWarLostThePeace those worst guys are starting to feel the squeeze]] and [[PyrrhicVictory reap the consequences of the actions that they committed to win.]]
** The Others have won every engagement they've fought directly so far, have had everything north of the Wall ceded to them, and thanks to everyone else killing each other off are currently winning the greater game by default.

* Collection of short stories "Villains Victorious" is based on this trope.

* In Chimaera, the last book in the Well of Echoes quartet, [[spoiler: almost all magic in the world is destroyed, and the big bad becomes the God-Emperor of everything. The next series begins ten years later, which the big bad has spent enslaving the continent, and the main character has spent in the very bottom level of a prison.]] Yeesh.

* The entire ''point'' of Steve Stirling's ''[[Literature/TheDraka Draka]]'' Trilogy.
** Except the ''New America'' escaped and now the Draka and Samothracians are fighting through time and alternate realities...

* In Creator/BenCounter's ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' ''Literature/HorusHeresy'' novel ''Galaxy In Flames'', the [[RebelliousRebel betrayed Space Marines]] manage to survive the first bombardment. Which means they get brutally hammered by an assault, and then bombarded again, wiping them out. Their only consolation is having hurt Horus's forces and not DyingAlone -- and the assault, Horus points out, was a ShootYourMate that [[XanatosSpeedChess ensured]] that his forces were all committed.

* Creator/GrahamMcNeill: ''[[Literature/IronWarriors Storm of Iron]]'', the Imperial Guard not only lose and are slaughtered, their last ditch effort to prevent the Chaos forces from claiming what they were seeking failed -- and they knew it.
-->''There was no way they could destroy it all before the Iron Warriors came to kill them. But they would try. It was all they had left.'' See his ''Dead Sky Black Sun'' for reappearance of some characters and things from this work.

* In Creator/GrahamMcNeill's ''[[Literature/IronWarriors Storm of Iron]]'', the Imperial Guard not only lose and are slaughtered, their last ditch effort to prevent the Chaos forces from claiming what they were seeking failed -- and they knew it.
-->''There was no way they could destroy it all before the Iron Warriors came to kill them. But they would try. It was all they had left.''
** [[spoiler:See his ''Dead Sky Black Sun'' for reappearance of some characters and things from this work.]]

* This happens in some of King's short stories as well.

* Ditto with ''Literature/AmericanPsycho'' and the disclaimer in its own film example above.

* As mentioned in the Film example, ''Literature/NoCountryForOldMen''.

* In ''Literature/TheSilmarillion,'' after the fifth battle in the Wars of Beleriand, [[BigBad Morgoth]] has completely devastated the armies of the elves, and shortly crushes all of their kingdoms into dust, reducing their domain to a tiny island off the coast and becoming the undisputed lord of all of Arda east of Valinor. It takes the intervention of the god-like Valar in the War of Wrath to even achieve a BittersweetEnding.

** No Valar intervention in ''Akallabêth''. Sauron manages to corrupt the Númenóreans' minds and causes eventually the destruction of Númenor, a paradise on Earth. To make things even worse, Eru - the Supreme Deity - does the actual destruction for Sauron. Yes, the physical form of Sauron dies with the cataclysm, but he reincarnates quickly. Unlike in ''Quenta Silmarillion'' the Valar ''do absolutely nothing'' to achieve even a BittersweetEnding.
*** To be fair, the last time the Valar intervened, it destroyed half the known world. The maps in the Silmarillion show that the world as of ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' books used to be way off to the east, rather than the extreme west of Middle Earth. They thus swore never to directly interfere again, though they do send emissaries to help guide the peoples of Middle Earth; the wizards.

** In ''Literature/TheTalesOfBeedleTheBard'', Death is the antagonist in the "The Tale of the Three Brothers", as he initiates all the trouble in the story with the aim of claiming the lives of the Peverell Brothers, ultimately succeeding in the end. While he was able to claim Antioch and Cadmus shortly after first meeting them, it took him many years to do the same to Ignotus, and even then, it happened only on Ignotus' own terms.

* In ''Literature/TheSilmarillion,'' after the fifth battle in the Wars of Beleriand [[BigBad Morgoth]] has completely devastated the armies of the elves, and shortly crushes all of their kingdoms into dust, reducing their domain to a tiny island off the coast and becoming the undisputed lord of all of Arda east of Valinor. It takes the intervention of the god-like Valar in the War of Wrath to even achieve a BittersweetEnding.

* William S. Lind's ''Literature/{{Victoria}}'' the ''protagonists'' win in their struggle to carve a new nation from the decaying carcass of the old American state. A paleo-conservative authoritarian state that forbids post 1930s technology, women in the workplace, will hang a Black person immediately for failing a drug test or any violent crime, shoots anyone crossing the border and sells women into sexual slavery. Also, the titular Victoria contributes troops to, and the main character becomes a trainer for officers in, a global genocide of all Muslims.

* William S. Lind's "Literature/{Victoria}" the ''protagonists'' win in their struggle to carve a new nation from the decaying carcass of the old American state. A paleo-conservative authoritarian state that forbids post 1930s technology, women in the workplace, will hang a Black person immediately for failing a drug test or any violent crime, shoots anyone crossing the border and sells women into sexual slavery. Also, the titular Victoria contributes troops to, and the main character becomes a trainer for officers in, a global genocide of all Muslims.