Now a New York Times bestseller! 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.
Sobre o autor(a)
Scalzi, John
John Scalzi é escritor, editor e crítico de cinema. Ex-presidente da Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, já ganhou os prêmios Hugo e Locus, além do prêmio John W. Campbell de Melhor Escritor Estreante com Guerra do Velho, seu primeiro romance. Entre seus livros estão Red Shirts e Lock In. Scalzi mora em Ohio, nos Estados Unidos, com a esposa, a filha e vários animais de estimação. |