Steelheart

The first Reckoners novel. A burst of light in the sky gave ordinary people extraordinary powers, and every single one of them turned tyrant. Ten years on, David has spent his life obsessively cataloguing the Epics because he saw something nobody else did: Steelheart, the invulnerable man who rules Chicago, once bled. He wants in with the Reckoners, the only crew hunting Epics, and he wants Steelheart dead. Sanderson takes the superhero premise and asks the obvious question nobody asks, which is what unaccountable power actually does to people.