100 Bullets

Plot

The plot of 100 Bullets is built on a simple premise, questioning whether people would take the chance to get away with revenge. In each story arc, Agent Graves approaches someone who has been wronged in someway, and gives them the chance to set things right in the form of a nondescript attaché case containing a handgun and 100 bullets. He informs the candidate that the bullets are completely untraceable, and even more, any police agency that receives these bullets as part of an investigation will, through some unexplained process, immediately drop that investigation and ignore any transgressions related to it.

Though all of the murders enabled by Agent Graves are presented as justifiable, the candidates are neither rewarded nor punished for taking up the offer, and appear to receive nothing other than closure for their actions. Several people have received the offer, and decided not to take the offer up.

It is revealed that Agent Graves was part of a group known as the "Minutemen" who once worked for a shadowy organization known as "The Trust". The Trust was originally formed by a group of 13 powerful European aristocrats who offer to leave Europe, where they have considerable influence, in exchange for complete autonomy in the still unclaimed portion of the new world. When this agreement is broken by the formation of the English colony Roanoke, the Minutemen are formed. The original Minutemen are seven vicious killers, who eradicate the colony and leave the message "Croatoa" as a warning. The Minutemen are charged with protecting the 13 families who make up the Trust, from outside threats and from each other. The Minutemen are eventually betrayed by the Trust, and some of them are brainwashed and live unremarkable, normal lives.

Many of those who are offered the chance for vengeance by Graves are actually former Minutemen, or people who have been wronged by the Trust or its agents. So far he has reactivatived several of the Minutemen and recruited potential new members.

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