Natalie Zina Walschots: Hench, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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"This book is fast, furious, compelling, and angry as hell." ---Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author

The Boys meets My Year of Rest and Relaxation in this smart, imaginative, and evocative novel of love, betrayal, revenge, and redemption, told with razor-sharp wit and affection, in which a young woman discovers the greatest superpower---for good or ill---is a properly executed spreadsheet.
Includes a bonus story for the paperback.
Anna does boring things for terrible people because even criminals
need office help and she needs a job. Working for a monster lurking beneath the
surface of the world isn't glamorous. But is it really worse than working for
an oil conglomerate or an insurance company? In this economy?
As a temp, she's just a cog in the machine. But when she
finally gets a promising assignment, everything goes very wrong, and an
encounter with the so-called "hero" leaves her badly injured. And, to her
horror, compared to the other bodies strewn about, she's the lucky one.
So, of course, then she gets laid off.
With no money and no mobility, with only her anger and
internet research acumen, she discovers her suffering at the hands of a hero is
far from unique. When people start listening to the story that her data tells,
she realizes she might not be as powerless as she thinks.
Because the key to everything is data: knowing how to
collate it, how to manipulate it, and how to weaponize it. By tallying up the
human cost these caped forces of nature wreak upon the world, she discovers that
the line between good and evil is mostly marketing. And with social media and
viral videos, she can control that appearance.
It's not too long before she's employed once more, this time
by one of the worst villains on earth. As she becomes an increasingly valuable
lieutenant, she might just save the world.

A sharp, witty, modern debut, Hench explores the
individual cost of justice through a fascinating mix of Millennial office
politics, heroism measured through data science, body horror, and a profound
misunderstanding of quantum mechanics.