Bad legacy: Dark Psychological/Crime Thriller (mythic edge)

By Mark Chester

Bad Legacy is a gritty psychological thriller about inherited violence, fractured identity, and the encrypted psychology of organised crime.

Tony Devine-known on the dark network as BadLegacy-is spiralling. His grandfather, Salvatori Marconi, is dead. The family's criminal empire is bleeding out, and the encrypted world that once gave Tony power-EncroChat-feels untouchable. Anonymous. Secure. A place where plans are made, secrets traded, and nothing sticks.

As visions blur into violent reality, Tony descends into a mythic underworld shaped by family, memory, and encrypted history: funeral fights, woodland rituals, hidden wills, and coded messages. He must decide whether to uphold the legacy he was born into-or burn it all down.

But Tony isn't alone in his own head. Salvatori lives on as a critical inner voice, dragging him through the ruins of his morality. Other alter egos emerge too-unstable, encrypted versions of Tony, each with their own motive and mask. One is paranoid. One is ruthless. One just wants out. These fractured selves collide and contend as he navigates the thin line between loyalty and self-destruction.

This isn't a haunting-it's a psychic breakdown. Or maybe a breakthrough. The boundaries between conscious and unconscious are collapsing. Legacy, in Tony's world, isn't just blood-it's code, identity, and inherited madness.

EncroChat phones were marketed as untraceable, used by the upper tier of organised crime. With dual operating systems, self-destruct PINs, and remote-wipe capabilities, they weren't just tools-they were status. To Tony and those like him, they were the backbone of modern criminal enterprise: sleek, anonymous, and untouchable.

Darkly funny, violently lyrical, and emotionally raw, Bad Legacy blends noir grit with Jungian psychology and modern myth. It's not just the story of a man breaking down-it's the story of a man breaking open, in a world built on secrets, codes, and shadows.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FLTYQGPP
• ISBN13: 9798296238412
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"