The second book by prize-winning Japanese novelist Fuminori Nakamura to be available in English translation, a follow-up to 2012's critically acclaimed The Thief─another fantastically creepy, electric literary thriller that explores the limits of human depravity─and the powerful human instinct to resist evil. When Fumihiro Kuki is eleven years old, his elderly, enigmatic father calls him into his study for a meeting. "I created you to be a cancer on the world," his father tells him. It is a tradition in their wealthy family: a patriarch, when reaching the end of his life, will beget one last child to cause misery in a world that cannot be controlled or saved. From this point on, Fumihiro will be specially educated to learn to create as much destruction and unhappiness in the world around him as a single person can. Between his education in hedonism and his family's resources, Fumihiro's life is one without repercussions. Every door is open to him, for he need obey no laws and may live out any fantasy he might have, no matter how many people are hurt in the process. But as his education progresses, Fumihiro begins to question his father's mandate, and starts to resist.

Mighty He-Man battles the evil Skeletor and his henchmen to rescue Lady Irena from a crystal bubble prison.

Mighty He-Man battles the evil Skeletor and his henchmen to rescue Lady Irena from a crystal bubble prison.

Jack is going through some boxes when he finds an old mask that he has never seen before. But jack figures out that this isnt any ordinary mask, its an evil mask.

The saga of the Mask of Power comes to a thrilling conclusion in Trigger Happy Targets the Evil Kaos, the eighth and final book in this series of illustrated original novels set in the Skylanders universe. The race is on to reach the final segment of the Mask of Power! Can Kaos be stopped from piecing the Mask together and using it to terrorize Skylands? There's one giggling, gold-slinging gremlin who sure thinks so! Join Trigger Happy and the other heroic Skylanders in their last stand against Kaos.