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‘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 Dungeon Crawler Carl and 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.

Publisher Review

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, the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Wretched Divine * Scion is a high-octane cyberpunk thrill ride jammed full of insane tech, dry wit, and frenetic violence. I devoured it * Fonda Lee, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Contract of Isako and the Green Bone Saga * 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, author of The Library of the Dead * 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 Lewis, author of The First Sister * Full of fierce energy and razor-sharp writing, Scion sketches a terrifyingly enjoyable world to get lost in * Jeremy Szal, author of Stormblood * A fast-paced and action-packed cyberpunk novel about freedom, justice, and identity * Petrik Leo, Novel Notions *