Scion

<p>'Ridiculously fast paced and fun: mangatastic-action with heart and soul' <b>DAILY MAIL</b><br>'A brilliant page turner by my new auto-buy author' <b>ADALYN GRACE</b><br>'A high-octane cyberpunk thrill ride . . . I devoured it' <b>FONDA LEE<br></b>'Like a quest straight out of <i>Cyberpunk 2077</i>' <b>LINDEN LEWIS</b><br>'Grips you from the first sentence to the last' <b>T. L. HUCHU</b><br><i><br><b>Scion</b></i><b> introduces #1 <i>New York Times </i>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 <i>Dungeon Crawler Carl </i>and <i>The Murderbot Diaries</i>.</b><br><br><b>KILL OR DIE . . . WHAT WOULD YOU CHOOSE?</b></p><p>My job, when you think about it, isn't so different from a lot of people's. <br><br> 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. <br><br> 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. <br><br> Luckily, my genetic compatibilities make me really, <i>really </i>good at doing it. <br><br> 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. <br><br> I'm sure it'll all go totally fine though. <br><br><b>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, <i>Scion </i>is a fever dream you can binge in one sitting.</b></p>