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School bully Jake Hunter receives a mysterious email inviting him to join a scheme for world domination. With unlimited power and wealth at his fingertips, how can he resist? But to get it he has to become an arch-criminal, entangled in a plan that threatens the planet. And that could just be a step too far...

Books in this series:
 * Council Of Evil
 * Dark Hunter
 * Power Surge
 * Collision Course

Sister series to Hero.com


 * A Simple Plan - as Jake observes in the third book, something always goes wrong
 * All Girls Want Bad Boys - It's noted in the first book that Jake is quite popular with the girls at his school, including Lorna, one of the protagonists of Hero.com, whose feelings he reciprocates.
 * Anti-Villain - Jake, which makes sense as a kids' book can't have a bad guy protagonist be really bad.
 * Blond Guys Are Evil - Jake himself is blond..
 * Cloning Gambit -
 * Dating Catwoman - Jake is the metaphorical "Catwoman" in this case.
 * Even Evil Has Loved Ones -.
 * Evil Mentor - Basilisk
 * The Faceless - Basilisk, courtesy of a sufficiently scary hood.
 * Flying Car - The aptly named SkyKar.
 * Holding Back the Phlebotinum - Jake can only download four powers at the time, and they have an unspecified time limit.
 * I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin! -
 * In the Blood - Basilisk tells Jake that villainy is in his blood so often that it's practically the Arc Words of the first book, and seems to be pretty obvious Foreshadowing of Luke, I Am Your Father or something similar.
 * Nice to the Waiter - At one point in the first book, Jake gives up his chair for an older henchman of Basilisk's.
 * Omniscient Council of Vagueness - The Council of Evil, though we know its purpose is to make sure supervillains' plots don't overlap or anything.
 * Pet the Dog - Jake rescues his teacher after he accidentally sets fire to the classroom, and spares the scientists at the Indian Institute of Advanced Technology when Basilisk asks him to take care of the situation (as in, leave no witnesses).
 * Really Seven Hundred Years Old - Basilisk has a regenerating ability that allows him to get an extra few years by borrowing other people's DNA.
 * Reptiles Are Abhorrent - Upon meeting The Chameleon, Jake assumes he's also a villain. He's wrong, though Chameleon seems to come off as a bit ruthless. Of course, considering the point of view we're seeing him from...
 * Sink or Swim Mentor - Basilisk decides that shoving Jake out of the SkyKar is the best way to teach him how to use his downloaded flying abilities.
 * Stock Super Powers - The fact that these are downloadable is the driving force behind the plot. There are too many different ones used to list them all here.
 * Take a Third Option - if you have superpowers, you have to choose between the Council of Evil and the Hero Foundation.  and   disapprove.
 * Teach Him Anger - As Jake's villainous mentor Basilisk tells him, "Controlled anger is the mightiest weapon."
 * Two Lines, No Waiting - This and Hero.com are mostly separate stories, but make occasional references to each other.
 * Villain Protagonist - Well, duh.
 * What the Hell, Hero? - Jake's not happy when he learns that
 * What the Hell, Hero? - Jake's not happy when he learns that