The Boys meets Starter Villain and Assistant to the Villain in Natalie Zina Walschotsâs electrifying, sharp, violent, and hilarious sequel to the highly acclaimed novel, Hench, in which the Auditor must confront the near-impossible in order to right the many wrongs in the superhuman industryâŚor cause more of them. Sheâs not picky.
Anna, better known to superheroes as the Auditor, has carved out a name for herself. Any hero unlucky enough to cross her path knows her potential and powers. Surely, success should taste sweet: she has an incredible job with lots of perks, and her boss will literally annihilate anyone who crosses her, and her greatest enemy, the former hero Supercollider, has been utterly defeated and literally ground to a pulp.
But Anna still has her sights set on a greater work: destroying the Draft, the organization that makes, trains, and manages the worldâs most powerful superheroes. These âheroesâ have shown time and time again that they do more harm than good, and now is the time to stop the damage at its source.
Yet all is not well for the Auditor and her fellow evildoers. Her employer, Leviathanâthe worldâs most feared supervillainâis not coping well with Supercolliderâs defeat at someone elseâs hands. Moreover, her unlikely ally and unexpected friend, Quantum Entanglement, has vanished without a trace, leaving Anna to examine all the ways they deceived each other. Tension and uncertainty fill the air, and fear that this moment of triumph is about to crumble looms over all of them.
Anna soon finds herself facing down an opponent unlike any sheâs taken on beforeânot another superhero, but someone like herâŚsomeone much more dangerous: the Draftâs Chief Marketing Officer. This isnât a test of physical prowess, but ideas, and as the fight spirals deeper and deeper, with new foes popping up every dayâsheâll need more than just her superpowerâdata researchâto keep ascending through the supervillain ranks.
Itâs guerrilla ad warfare, and the Auditor might have finally met her match.