@NickEast_IndieWriter@mastodon.art @reading@fedigroups.social @bookstodon@fedigroups.social @books@lemmy.world @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop @joinin@fedigroups.social Glen Cook's Garret/Tunfaire series. Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos novels. George Alec Effinger's Marid Auran/Budayeen stories. Perhaps not quite what you mean, but almost all the nominally good guys in David Edding's Belgariad and Mallorean series are arrogant jerks. Jerks with hearts of gold, or at least silver, but still jerks.