by Brandon Sanderson
In a world where a mysterious event called Calamity granted superpowers to a random subset of humanity, every single person who got powers — every Epic — became a villain. Steelheart rules Newcago, a city literally turned to steel. David Charleston watched Steelheart kill his father and has spent years studying Epics to find their weaknesses. Now he's joining the Reckoners — a group of ordinary humans who assassinate Epics.