Books with ruthless protagonist

No whining, no hesitating, quick to take action. Lying, stealing and killing people without any moral restraints. Are there any literary characters that fit the bill?
Basically, I'm looking for well-written edgelord psychopath characters. No emotional bullshit, just doing whatever it takes to save their own skin.

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A clockwork Orange

The Talented Mr. Ripley

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The Bible

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I recommend the Bible

American Psycho

The filthiest love story has yet to be written

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yep, Bateman is about as ruthless as it gets.

Crime and Punishment.

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wrong

The count of montecristo kinda

Survivor by palahniuk

Artemis Fowl, though I'm personally not a fan

Read Maupassant. All of his characters are like that. He's also probably the most underrated author, basically (along with Poe) invented the short story, and has written like 400 short stories. He only has like 3 or 4 novels though, but they're all good. is pic related from the movie version of Bel Ami? that's probly his best novel

american psycho ofcourse.

besides that i have no idea.

battle royale has some ruthless characters in it, pretty cool.
Some other books of bret easton ellis also have some fuckedup characters in it.

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

Elmer Gantry

that one lady in East of Eden

Quran

Wuthering heights

Jesus, what a cover for 19th century novel. (Which I love. But he
kind of doubts himself sometimes).

Nightmare Alley

Probably Henry in Secret History.

Half of that is what OP would describe as emotional bullshit

My diary

Demons
Blood Meridian

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What edition would you recomend? I never heard of A Hero Of Our time before, but based on the Wikipedia page it looks promising.

Project gutenberg has it for free

This board will probably insist on spending the money for Nabokov’s translation

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Jason Compson, the third narrator of The Sound and The Fury is ruthless (not psychopathic)

I'm a paperback kind of user, but thank you.

Are the books different? In the movie he sounded like an emotionally disturbed guy.

Wuthering Heights

Jules in A Fairly Honorable Defeat by Iris Murdoch fits the bill.

Unfortunately cannot recomend anything, I only read the original.

Is this good?