num_pages: 403
description: 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 isnt glamorous. But is it really worse than working for an oil conglomerate or an insurance company? In this economy? As a temp shes 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 shes 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.Its not too long before shes 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. 
language: English
title: Hench
publisher: William Morrow