Hench is a literary fiction book by author Natalie Zina Walschots.
This clever, imaginative and evocative novel of love, betrayal, revenge and redemption. Heroism is measured through data science, a bit of body horror, and a deep understanding of quantum mechanics.

Anna does boring things for bad people because even criminals need the help of the office.
Working for a monster that lurks beneath the surface of the world isn’t all that appealing. But is it really worse than working for an oil corporation or an insurance company?
As a temporary employee, she is just a cog in the machine. When she receives a promising mission, things go terribly wrong, and an encounter with the so-called “hero” leaves her severely injured. To her horror, compared to the other bodies scattered about, she was the lucky one.
Then she was fired.
By tallying the human costs that these obscured forces of nature wreak on the world, she discovered that the line between good and evil is mostly marketing. And with social media and viral video, she can control that appearance.
She’s been recruited again, this time by one of the worst villains on earth. As she becomes an increasingly valuable lieutenant, she can save the world.