Are you a hero if you fail as villain? 
 MechaniCal or just Cal is a villain. A poor, downtrodden, semi-retired D-list villain, but a supervillain all the same... And now he wishes he was anything or anywhere else. Pursued by the word's premier superhero team "The Olympians". In his old and battered battle armour he has to figure out what is going on, how to get out of there and stay alive while doing that.... Ohh and the entire world, (including the hero's) are being mind controlled. 
 In short this is a fun and quite engaging novel that kept me up reading long after bedtime. The novel takes a run with a few tropes and runs with it. Cal is just "a guy" and the Heroes are by no means all saints. 
 So for anyone interested in a novel about a D-list villain pressed and flailing in the position of a hero. Then this is a book for you.