Empowered: Agent
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4.1 • 15 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The world says those possessing superpowers are either heroes or villains. But what if you’re both?
Mathilda Brandt isn’t the angry, out-of-control teenager she was before she got out of jail. She’s hungry for a chance at a normal life, but when a gang threatens her sisters, she has no choice but to use her illegal superpower to protect them.
A secretive government agency gives her a choice: go back to prison for life, or infiltrate a notorious super-villain group in order to stop a psychotic Empowered.
To save her city, her family, and herself, Mat must become the last thing she ever wanted to be again: a criminal.
Customer Reviews
An alternative reality with superheroes!
This series is set in a world that could have but didn’t happen. It supposes that the Cuban crisis ended with missile strikes against the USA and resulted in the destruction of Washington and the Congress. President Nixon, didn’t retaliate and this situation was the Three Day War. People were born with supernatural capabilities, and a league of superheroes virtually controls the planet. Those people with capabilities are either asked to join the heroes or swear to never use their powers again. Breaking these vows can result in life imprisonment or death.