Scion
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4.4 • 5 Ratings
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- $20.99
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- $20.99
Publisher Description
John Wick meets Ghost in the Shell in this fast-paced and gritty cyberpunk sci-fi thriller by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the “ambitious” Hierarchy series.
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 realized 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.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Take a dose of RoboCop, add a dash of Logan’s Run, and you begin to approach the realm of the hyperspeed sci-fi thriller Scion. In an unsettlingly not-too-distant dystopian future, there’s an even wider gap between the haves and have-nots. Azure is a genetically enhanced assassin with super speed, strength, and intelligence. His targets are ultrawealthy “lifers” rich enough to medically cheat death indefinitely. But he’s hired to guard Jasa—a woman he describes as “Cretaceous period old”—from other assassins and is forced to unravel the mysteries surrounding her. The action unfurls at a thrillingly breakneck pace as Azure battles not only other assassins but bioengineered monsters. James Islington finds room for plenty of mordant wit, and we couldn’t get enough of the testy dynamic between Azure and Jasa. If you like your cyberpunk thrillers brimming with clever quips and moral ambiguity, Scion is the futuristic roller-coaster ride for you.