TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scalzi,John
TI  - Starter villain
SN  - 9780765389220
PY  - 2023///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Tor Publishing Group
KW  - Supervillains
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Uncles
KW  - Corporations
KW  - Good and evil
KW  - Inheritance and succession
KW  - Science fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Humorous fiction
N2  - "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"--
ER  -