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John Wick meets Ghost in the Shell in this fast-paced cyberpunk thriller by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Will of the Many and The Strength of the Few.
My job, when you think about it, isn’t so different from a lot of people’s.
The more old-fashioned crowd do still get hung up on the "killing people" part of it, I guess, but that’s a them problem: it’s been perfectly legal to take out lifers for ages. Besides, once ultrawealthy morons realised they had a way to live forever—limited resources be damned—there was only ever going to be one genuinely practical deterrent.
So, sure, I have to deal with a ton of boring planning. Inconvenient hours. Some pretty awkward face-to-face interactions. And like most of us, I’m really only clocking in to try to crawl out from beneath my debts. But someone’s got to do it.
Luckily, my genetic compatibilities make me really, really good at doing it.
Still. This next job...I don’t know. It’s something I haven’t had to deal with in years. Kind of the opposite of my regular duties. Strange, that it got thrown my way.
I’m sure it’ll all go totally fine though.
Genre: Science Fiction
My job, when you think about it, isn’t so different from a lot of people’s.
The more old-fashioned crowd do still get hung up on the "killing people" part of it, I guess, but that’s a them problem: it’s been perfectly legal to take out lifers for ages. Besides, once ultrawealthy morons realised they had a way to live forever—limited resources be damned—there was only ever going to be one genuinely practical deterrent.
So, sure, I have to deal with a ton of boring planning. Inconvenient hours. Some pretty awkward face-to-face interactions. And like most of us, I’m really only clocking in to try to crawl out from beneath my debts. But someone’s got to do it.
Luckily, my genetic compatibilities make me really, really good at doing it.
Still. This next job...I don’t know. It’s something I haven’t had to deal with in years. Kind of the opposite of my regular duties. Strange, that it got thrown my way.
I’m sure it’ll all go totally fine though.
Genre: Science Fiction
Praise for this book
"A brilliant page turner by my new auto-buy author. Action-packed, bingeable, and remarkably witty, Scion was one heck of a cyberpunk story from start to finish." - Adalyn Grace
"A propulsive, adrenaline-filled thriller that grips you from the first sentence to the last. Islington's narrator leaps off the page with wit and smarts in this incredible story." - T L Huchu
"Scion is a high-octane cyberpunk thrill ride jammed full of insane tech, dry wit, and frenetic violence. I devoured it." - Fonda Lee
"Like a quest straight out of Cyberpunk 2077, Scion has all the hallmarks of Islington's strengths, with the same twisty plots, deep characters, and stellar worlds as his fantasy works, packaged in a sharp-edged sci-fi." - Linden A Lewis
"Full of fierce energy and razor-sharp writing, Scion sketches a terrifyingly enjoyable world to get lost in." - Jeremy Szal
"A propulsive, adrenaline-filled thriller that grips you from the first sentence to the last. Islington's narrator leaps off the page with wit and smarts in this incredible story." - T L Huchu
"Scion is a high-octane cyberpunk thrill ride jammed full of insane tech, dry wit, and frenetic violence. I devoured it." - Fonda Lee
"Like a quest straight out of Cyberpunk 2077, Scion has all the hallmarks of Islington's strengths, with the same twisty plots, deep characters, and stellar worlds as his fantasy works, packaged in a sharp-edged sci-fi." - Linden A Lewis
"Full of fierce energy and razor-sharp writing, Scion sketches a terrifyingly enjoyable world to get lost in." - Jeremy Szal
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