Starter Villain is John Scalzi's conspiracy-leading novel about a secret cabal of villains working together to exploit mankind, and getting foiled by an unsuspecting hero protagonist who's thrown into the situation by sheer dumb luck.
Well, not really --- the plot revolves around Charles' uncle dying and then his estate designating him as a successor. The protagonist in the story is a bit clueless, but smart and somewhat sympathetic, though not someone who lets power grow to his head.
The plot has a million plotholes in it, and you're carried along only by the fun reveals here and there (all the cats are spies working for an evil mastermind). It's a perfectly good airplane novel, but there's nothing deep here. That's true of most Scalzi novels, but what redeems the novel is the Scalzi sense of humor, style, and fast pace which ensures that you won't pause too long to think of the plotholes and the elaborate reveal.
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