"This book is fast, furious, compelling, and angry ashell." --Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling authorThe Boys meets My Year of Rest and Relaxation inthis smart, imaginative, and evocative novel of love, betrayal, revenge, andredemption, told with razor-sharp wit and affection, in which a young womandiscovers the greatest superpower--for good or ill--is a properly executedspreadsheet. Includes a bonus story for the paperback.Anna does boring things for terrible people because even criminalsneed office help and she needs a job. Working for a monster lurking beneath thesurface of the world isn't glamorous. But is it really worse than working foran oil conglomerate or an insurance company? In this economy?As a temp, she's just a cog in the machine. But when shefinally gets a promising assignment, everything goes very wrong, and anencounter with the so-called "hero" leaves her badly injured. And, to herhorror, compared to the other bodies strewn about, she's the lucky one.So, of course, then she gets laid off.With no money and no mobility, with only her anger andinternet research acumen, she discovers her suffering at the hands of a hero isfar from unique. When people start listening to the story that her data tells, she realizes she might not be as powerless as she thinks.Because the key to everything is data: knowing how tocollate it, how to manipulate it, and how to weaponize it. By tallying up thehuman cost these caped forces of nature wreak upon the world, she discovers thatthe line between good and evil is mostly marketing. And with social media andviral videos, she can control that appearance.It's not too long before she's employed once more, this timeby one of the worst villains on earth. As she becomes an increasingly valuablelieutenant, she might just save the world. A sharp, witty, modern debut, Hench explores theindividual cost of justice through a fascinating mix of Millennial officepolitics, heroism measured through data science, body horror, and a profoundmisunderstanding of quantum mechanics.
| ISBN | 9780062978585 |
| Autor(a) | Walschots, Natalie Zina |
| Editora | William Morrow |
| Ano de edição | 2021 |
| Páginas | 448 |
| Acabamento | Brochura |
| Dimensões | 20,20 X 13,40 |