{"product_id":"scion-9247","title":"Scion - PREORDER","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePub Date: September 01, 2026\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Wick meets \u003ci\u003eGhost in the Shell \u003c\/i\u003ein this fast-paced cyberpunk thriller by the #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Will of the Many \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Strength of the Few.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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\"\u003c\/b\u003e --T. L. HUCHU Author of \u003ci\u003eThe Library of the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMy job, when you think about it, isn't so different from a lot of people's.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLuckily, my genetic compatibilities make me really, \u003ci\u003ereally \u003c\/i\u003egood at doing it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStill. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI'm sure it'll all go totally fine though.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Islington\u003c\/b\u003e is the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Will of the Many\u003c\/i\u003e (the first novel in the Hierarchy series), as well as the Licanius Trilogy (beginning with \u003ci\u003eThe Shadow of What Was Lost\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eHe has sold more than two million books, and his work has been translated into seventeen different languages. He lives on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, Australia, with his wife and two children.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"James Islington","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52765852008733,"sku":"9781668239247","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9781668239247.jpg?v=1786738081","url":"https:\/\/www.anovelideaphilly.com\/products\/scion-9247","provider":"A Novel Idea on Passyunk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}