Diamondback's other scripture
Diamondback (Erik LaRay Harvey)
Diamondback is Luke's half-brother, the man who framed him and got him sent to Seagate. He quotes the Bible through most of the season, and in DWYCK he cites Robert Greene's The 48 Laws of Power too. Law 15 in Greene's book is crush your enemy totally. Watch what he does to Harlem and it's clear which text he's following.
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The 48 Laws of Power
Robert Greene's 1998 book boils roughly three thousand years of court politics down to 48 rules, with Machiavelli and Sun Tzu along for the ride. Add the Ten Commandments he keeps quoting and Diamondback is running on 58 rules, and the ten are the ones he breaks.
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