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* ActionGirl: Jesse Sue Longley, a teenage girl living by herself out in the Arizona desert when Jesse first meets her. She's on the run after killing a man who tried to rape her, and she proves to be quite a capable fighter, even [[spoiler:being the one to ultimately kill Whittle]].
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* ActionGirl: Jesse Sue Longley, a teenage girl living by herself out in the Arizona desert when Jesse Trevor first meets her. She's on the run after killing a man who tried to rape her, and she proves to be quite a capable fighter, even [[spoiler:being the one to ultimately kill Whittle]].
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* MurderersAreRapists: Averted with Whittle, which is highly unusual for a Laymon book. While Whittle’s crimes are obviously sexually motivated, he is never shown or said to sexually assault any of his victims. [[ShownTheirWork This was true of the Ripper murders in real life]].
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* BladeEnthusiast: Whittle prefers to use knives, even when he has a gun on hand. He only uses guns when backed into a corner.
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* KnifeNut: Whittle prefers to use knives, even when he has a gun on hand. He only uses guns when backed into a corner.
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* MoralDissonance: 15-year-old Trevor engages in a sexual relationship with Sarah, a woman more than 10 years his senior. It's not presented as rape, despite the fact that she aggressively came onto him. [[spoiler: In the end, she's killed off and he starts over with a girl closer to his age, somewhat averting this trope.]]
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* FamilyExtermination: Whittle's first attack in Tombstone was a home invasion where he killed a woman and her two teenage daughters. Later, when abducting women to take to his TortureCellar, he makes sure to kill any men with them.
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* RedRightHand: Trevor hacks off most of Whittle's nose when they first fight, leaving him with a distinctive hole in his face. For the rest of the novel, he covers it up with a satin patch.
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* SexForSolace: Sarah only starts actively coming on to Trevor after the death of her grandparents. It's strongly implied that her relationship with Trevor is motivated as much by desperate loneliness as much as attraction.
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* TortureCellar: Whittle uses a remote cave near Tombstone as one of these, taking women there for prolonged torture and mutilation. He also keeps the corpses on display near the back of the cave.
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* AxCrazy: Whittle can barely keep himself from flying off the handle and threatening to kill a victim before he can murder them himself is a genuine threat to him.
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* BigBad: Roderick Whittle, aka UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Many of Whittle's victims.
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: Whittle has an EXTREMELY macabre sense of humor.
* FanDisservice: Whittle does some truly horrific things to women, even after he's killed them.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Whittle can act extremely polite, but this is a mere MaskOfSanity.
* TheHunterBecomesTheHunted: Trevor's entire story pretty much.
* ILoveTheDead: Implied with Whittle.
* ImAHumanitarian: Implied with Whittle.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Many of Whittle's victims.
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: Whittle has an EXTREMELY macabre sense of humor.
* FanDisservice: Whittle does some truly horrific things to women, even after he's killed them.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Whittle can act extremely polite, but this is a mere MaskOfSanity.
* TheHunterBecomesTheHunted: Trevor's entire story pretty much.
* ILoveTheDead: Implied with Whittle.
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%% * CruelAndUnusualDeath: Many of Whittle's victims.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Many of Whittle's victims in ''Savage''.
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*ActionGirl: Jesse Sue Longley. Not much older than Trevor, but quite a badass.
* AxCrazy: Whittle.
*BigBad: Roderick Whittle, aka UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper.
*CruelAndUnusualDeath: Many of Whittle's victims in ''Savage''.
*EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: Whittle has an EXTREMELY macabre sense of humor.
*FauxAffablyEvil: Whittle can act extremely polite, but this is a mere MaskOfSanity.
* TheHunterBecomesTheHunted: Trevor' entire story pretty much.
*ImAHumanitarian: Implied with Whittle.
*KillerCop/RabidCop: Whittle becomes a sheriff's deputy named "John Carver".
*KnifeNut: Whittle. Come on, it's Jack the Ripper!
* MoralDissonance: 15-year-old Trevor engages in a sexual relationship with Sarah, a woman more than 10 years his senior. It's not presented as rape, despite the fact that she aggressively came onto him. [[spoiler: In the end, she's killed off and he starts over with a girl closer to his age, somewhat averting this trope.]]
*ReplacementLoveInterest: Jesse.
* {{Sadist}}: Whittle, SO, so much.
*SlashedThroat: [[spoiler:How Whittle meets his end, courtesy of Jesse's Bowie knife]].
*ActionGirl: Jesse Sue Longley. Not much older than Trevor, but quite a badass.
* AxCrazy: Whittle.
*BigBad: Roderick Whittle, aka UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper.
*CruelAndUnusualDeath: Many of Whittle's victims in ''Savage''.
*EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: Whittle has an EXTREMELY macabre sense of humor.
*FauxAffablyEvil: Whittle can act extremely polite, but this is a mere MaskOfSanity.
* TheHunterBecomesTheHunted: Trevor' entire story pretty much.
*ImAHumanitarian: Implied with Whittle.
*KillerCop/RabidCop: Whittle becomes a sheriff's deputy named "John Carver".
*KnifeNut: Whittle. Come on, it's Jack the Ripper!
* MoralDissonance: 15-year-old Trevor engages in a sexual relationship with Sarah, a woman more than 10 years his senior. It's not presented as rape, despite the fact that she aggressively came onto him. [[spoiler: In the end, she's killed off and he starts over with a girl closer to his age, somewhat averting this trope.]]
*ReplacementLoveInterest: Jesse.
* {{Sadist}}: Whittle, SO, so much.
*SlashedThroat: [[spoiler:How Whittle meets his end, courtesy of Jesse's Bowie knife]].
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''Savage'' (sometimes subtitled ''From Whitechapel to the Wild West on the Track of Jack the Ripper'') is a 1993 SpeculativeFiction novel by Creator/RichardLaymon. The [[FirstPersonPerspective narrator]] is 15-year-old Trevor Wellington Bentley. After witnessing UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper kill his 5th victim, Mary Kelly, Trevor tries to kill him. Adventures take him from London to the West.
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''Savage'' (sometimes subtitled ''From Whitechapel to the Wild West on the Track of Jack the Ripper'') is a 1993 SpeculativeFiction novel by Creator/RichardLaymon. The [[FirstPersonPerspective narrator]] is 15-year-old Trevor Wellington Bentley. After witnessing UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper kill his 5th victim, Mary Kelly, Trevor tries to kill him. Adventures take him from London to the West.
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