Starter villain. [online electronic book]
Starter villain. [online electronic book]
By
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Scalzi, John, 1969-
Publication Date
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2023
Subject Term
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Electronic books.
Supervillains -- Fiction.
Uncles -- Fiction.
Good and evil -- Fiction.
Inheritance and succession -- Fiction.
Genre
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Science fiction.
Humorous fiction.
Summary
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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.
Language
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English
ISBN
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9780765389237
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