The release date for the English version of 'Hench' by
Natalie Zina Walschots is Sep 2020. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Because even criminals need office help and because Anna needs a job, she does uninteresting tasks for horrible people. It's hardly glamorous to work for a monster that lives just beneath the surface of the earth. Is it, however, really worse than working for an insurance business or an oil conglomerate? in the current financial climate?She is merely a cog in the machine as a temp. However, everything goes horribly wrong when she finally receives a good job, and she is gravely hurt in an encounter with the self-proclaimed "hero." To her horror, she discovers that she is the lucky one among the other bodies scattered around.
Naturally, she subsequently loses her job.
With nothing but her rage and internet research skills, she finds that her ordeal at the hands of a hero is not unique, even though she lacks money and mobility. She discovers she may not be as helpless as she believes as people begin to hear the tale her data has to tell.
Data is the key to everything, thus learning how to gather, manipulate, and weaponize it is essential. She learns that the distinction between good and evil is largely a matter of marketing by calculating the human cost these harnessed powers of nature exact on the planet. She can also manage that appearance with the use of viral videos and social media.
She soon finds herself working for one of the greatest baddies on the planet once more. With her growing value as a lieutenant, she may potentially save the planet.
Hench is a snappy, funny, contemporary debut that delves into the personal cost of justice through an intriguing blend of body horror, Millennial workplace politics, heroism quantified by data science, and a deep misinterpretation of quantum mechanics.