Starter Villain (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780765389220)

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Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place.

Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan.

Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano lair) to Charlie.

But becoming a supervillain isn't all giant laser death rays and lava pits. Jake had enemies, and now they're coming after Charlie. His uncle might have been a stand-up, old-fashioned kind of villain, but these are the real thing: rich, soulless predators backed by multinational corporations and venture capital.

It's up to Charlie to win the war his uncle started against a league of supervillains. But with unionized dolphins, hyper-intelligent talking spy cats, and a terrifying henchperson at his side, going bad is starting to look pretty good.

In a dog-eat-dog world...be a cat.

Author: John Scalzi
ISBN-10: 0765389223
ISBN-13: 9780765389220
Publisher: Tor Books
Language: English
Published: 09/19/2023
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.60w x 1.00d
Award: Alex Awards - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 06/01/2023 pg. 50
Publishers Weekly 06/19/2023
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2023
Library Journal 07/01/2023 pg. 56
Shelf Awareness 09/22/2023