?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.
