sounds like an interesting book - funny you are from Ohio - my family all lives there (I do not) and I want to move to Colorado - which I love - I've also been a bartender - you learn alot about people
there are many forms of revenge to right wrongs - right imaginary wrongs revenge is never about something only an imaginary slight to one's person - sorry I couldn't come up wioth any particular book or movie - except for revenge of the Nerds