▸ RELEASED 21 SEPTEMBER
272 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook
▸ Author John Scalzi
▸ Publisher Tor
→ Comic novelists don’t often get treated with that much respect. After all, how can you be taken seriously if you’re busy telling gags? The rejoinder is that it’s actually more difficult both to make people laugh and to tackle big themes.
Yet that’s precisely what John Scalzi does with, a book that revolves around what happens when Charlie, a business journalist turned supply teacher who’s struggling just to pay his bills, discovers that his late uncle Jake was a billionaire supervillain. Does Charlie have the smarts to take on the family business?
