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 downtownif 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 enemiesand now they’re coming after Charlie. His uncle might have been a stand-upold-fashioned kind of villainbut these are the real thing: richsoulless 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 dolphinshyper-intelligent talking spy catsand a terrifying henchperson at his sidegoing bad is starting to look pretty good. In a dog-eat-dog world…be a cat.