Starter Villain

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.OTHER TOR BOOKS BY JOHN SCALZIAgent to the StarsThe Android’s DreamFuzzy NationRedshirtsYour Hate Mail Will Be Graded:A Decade of Whatever, 1998–2008The Kaiju Preservation SocietyWhen the Moon Hits Your EyeMonsters of OhioTHE OLD MAN’S WAR NOVELSOld Man’s WarThe Ghost BrigadesThe Last ColonyZoë’s TaleThe Human DivisionThe End of All ThingsThe Shattering PeaceTHE LOCK IN SERIESLock InHead OnUnlockedTHE INTERDEPENDENCY SEQUENCEThe Collapsing EmpireThe Consuming FireThe Last EmperoxEDITED BY JOHN SCALZIMetatropolisAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.