Scion

The unmissable new sci-fi thriller perfect for fans of Project Hail Mary and Murderbot from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of TikTok phenomenon The Will of the Many, now in development for film with Sony ´A brilliant page turner by my new auto-buy author´ ADALYN GRACE ´A high-octane cyberpunk thrill ride . . . I devoured it´ FONDA LEE ´Full of fierce energy and razor-sharp writing´ JEREMY SZAL ´Like a quest straight out of Cyberpunk 2077´ LINDEN LEWIS ´Grips you from the first sentence to the last´ T. L. HUCHU Scion introduces #1 New York Times bestseller James Islington´s first ever sci-fi novel in an unmissable new series filled with deadly assassins, dark humour, and world-changing technology - perfect for fans of The Murderbot Diaries. KILL OR DIE . . . WHAT WOULD YOU CHOOSE? 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 tonne 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 and 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. In a world where the rich live forever and the poor die young, Azure is an assassin trained to kill the richest of them all - until he´s hired to protect one of them instead. The question is: when you´re drowning in debt, how far is too far? Fusing the dystopian morality of cyberpunk with the explosive action of anime, Scion is a fever dream you can binge in one sitting.