{"product_id":"starter-villain-9780765389220b","title":"Starter Villain","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e2023 Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Best Science Fiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 700;\"\u003e2024 Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharlie'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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano lair) to Charlie.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt'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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a dog-eat-dog world...be a cat.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Tor Books","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42827036131408,"sku":"9780765389220B","price":13.49,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9780765389220-l.jpg?v=1785908560","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/en-ca\/products\/starter-villain-9780765389220b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}