I'm reading a book, and in this scene, the leader of a Yakuza group is
plotting to try to gain the spot as the largest and strongest syndicate in the
region. His group has kidnapped 2 characters from the target syndicate, and
he's talking with those 2 characters. He previously said that he finds other's
misfortunes amusing.

The sentence I'm trying to translate: あいつの蔭で延々と 非道をつくそうとする
思考も面白いがわしはどちらかというと派手好みでな

My attempt: The thought of [doing something unjust?] in a drawn out way in the
shadows is also amusing, but if it were one or the other, I would prefer to be
showy/extravagant.

I'm not sure what verb つく translates to. Either one of the many many
possibilities of つく verbs with verb root + そう like "to appear/seem to (verb)"?
But which つく, there's a lot and they have so many potential meanings.
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非道をつくそうとする translation attempt
This is 非道を **尽くす** , where 尽くす means "to do (something) fully", "to exhaust"
or "to run the full gamut of ～". 非道を尽くす means doing all sorts of atrocious
things.

Similar examples:

  * 全力を尽くす: to do one's best
  * 町で破壊の限りを尽くす: to run the gamut of destruction in the town
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