Starter Villain

Meet the new boss.

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John Scalzi, Wil Wheaton: Starter Villain (AudiobookFormat, 2023, John Scalzi, Audible, Inc.)

Audiobook

English language

Published Sept. 18, 2023 by John Scalzi, Audible, Inc..

ASIN:
B0C6FL35YR
4 stars (4 reviews)

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, hyperintelligent talking spy cats, …

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