A True Anti-Hero

For a while now i have been a huge fan of the now ended Showtime show Dexter. I am still only on the second season but I only recently realized that the show is based off the books by Jeff Lindsay. So after hearing about this and doing some research i found that the first book follows the show very closely. So, since i finished the first season i skipped the first book and read a synopsis of the differences, there was only one and i will not talk about it for the sake of spoilers. So i started the second novel in the Dexter series called Darkly Dreaming Dexter. For those of you who don't know who Dexter is then here is a little background: Dexter is a blood spatter expert working with Miami PD. What the police don't know is that Dexter is also a serial killer who kills those who slip through the system to satisfy an inner urge he calls the Dark Passenger. I say that Dexter is a true anti-hero because of the fact that he senselessly murders people on a daily basis but does it according to a code. This code that Dexter was taught by his foster father is how Dexter chooses his victim and how he does not get caught while he continues his 'hobby'. Dexter throughout the book speaks about this urge that he has, this need, to kill. He refers to it sometimes as an itch like any average person would get but his just keeps coming back and the only way for him to satisfy it temporarily is by killing. In the book he does not kill as many people as he likes because he is being watched closely, but he does kill one person in particular that shows his anti-hero status. Dexter finds out about a child molester living in Miami. He promptly tracks this man down and silences him forever. Because of Dexter's 'noble' choosing of a victim i believe he is the perfect image of an anti-hero.