YMMV / Up from the Grave (Night Huntress #7)

• Complete Monster: The new director of the Paranormal Unit and his financier inflict gruesome experiments against vampires and ghouls for nefarious purposes:
  • Jason Madigan, the successor to Donald "Don" Williams as Director of the Paranormal Unit, initially presents himself as a smarmy bureaucrat, but eventually shows his true colors as a cruel sadist who has experimented on thousands of ghouls and vampires in the hopes of creating a hybrid Super-Soldier backed by former White House Staffer Richard Trove. To this end, Madigan had misappropriated DNA from Cat Crawfield-Russell, as well as from an unidentified soldier, forcibly impregnating a human woman with the embryo, the only embryo out of a hundred to survive pregnancy. Once the child, Katie, is born, Madigan had experimented on her and subjected her to brutal conditioning, successfully turning her into a ghoul/vampire hybrid and a ruthless Child Soldier. When Cat discovers that the Paranormal Unit is missing and arranges to meet up to discuss their disappearance, Madigan leads her into an ambush before taking her to his facility, where he attempts to experiment on her. When Cat escapes, and confronts Madigan alongside the freed captives, Madigan vindictively swallows a cyanide pill in order to deprive Cat of the information leading to his backer.
  • Richard Trove, the former White House Chief of Staff, is Jason Madigan's shadow backer, and a power draining demon who wants to start a war between vampires and ghouls so that his own species may reign supreme once more. To this end, Trove had encouraged Madigan to perform genetic experimentation on both species, supervising the Behavioral Conditioning of the resulting test subject, Katie, turning her into a vicious killer despite her young age. When confronted by Cat Crawfield-Russell and Bones Russell, Trove taunts Cat with the knowledge that Katie is her daughter. During the final confrontation, Trove attempts to incite the ghoul population by invoking Apollyon's rhetoric. Trove proceeds to attempt to drain Cat of her energy, only to be stabbed in the face with a demon bone knife.
• The Woobie: Katie's story of being raised as a child soldier and conditioned into a cold blooded killer at the tender age of seven is nothing short of tragic.