Starter villain / John Scalzi.
"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."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780765389220
- ISBN: 0765389223
- ISBN: 9781250879394
- ISBN: 1250879396
- Physical Description: 264 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Tor, Tor Publishing Group, 2023.
- Copyright: ©2023
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- Publisher, dates, and paging may vary.
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- Subject:
- Inheritance and succession > Fiction.
Good and evil > Fiction.
Supervillains > Fiction.
Corporations > Fiction.
Murder > Fiction.
Uncles > Fiction. - Genre:
- Humorous fiction.
Science fiction.
Novels.
Fiction.
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- 79 of 90 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
- 2 of 2 copies available at Rutherford County Library System.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Norris Public Library | F Sca (Text) | 30254100689253 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Rutherford Bookmobile | SF Sca (Text) | 38801102076301 | Adult Fiction Science Fiction | Available | - |
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