The Price of Everything
Published on 10. April 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
432 pages
978-1-83786-235-1 (ISBN)
Description
Corporations fall, gangsters are killed, but no-one messes with the Couriers Guild.
When Armand Pierce first became a courier ten years ago, he had an attache case connected to a titanium cuff grafted into the bones of his wrist, and took an oath: the delivery is everything. He can run, fight-kill, if he needs to-but the package gets where it's going. It's the Guild's guarantee, and since the internet went down in the Cyber Wars, all business, legitimate or otherwise, depends on it. Otherwise, he dies.
So Pierce knows he's in deep trouble when he arrives at his latest destination to find his payload missing, his case mysteriously empty. Something strange is going on: something that's already cost three couriers their lives, and threatens to upend the global order. And Pierce had better get to the bottom of it, before the Guild, catches up to him.
When Armand Pierce first became a courier ten years ago, he had an attache case connected to a titanium cuff grafted into the bones of his wrist, and took an oath: the delivery is everything. He can run, fight-kill, if he needs to-but the package gets where it's going. It's the Guild's guarantee, and since the internet went down in the Cyber Wars, all business, legitimate or otherwise, depends on it. Otherwise, he dies.
So Pierce knows he's in deep trouble when he arrives at his latest destination to find his payload missing, his case mysteriously empty. Something strange is going on: something that's already cost three couriers their lives, and threatens to upend the global order. And Pierce had better get to the bottom of it, before the Guild, catches up to him.
Reviews / Votes
"Jon McGoran offers a brilliant-and frighteningly feasible-glimpse of the future, wrapped in a pulse-pounding package that'll have you turning the pages as fast as you can, then running to the bank to stockpile cash." -Rob Hart, author of The Warehouse and The Paradox Hotel "This ultraviolent and nonstop action sci-fi thriller delivers (no pun intended) all the goods. McGoran does a terrific job of worldbuilding, and readers will dig this blending of Blade Runner and John Wick." -firstCLUE "The Price of Everything is gritty future-noir, a sci-fi novel with a thriller's pacing, presented with a vividness that leaves a pit in your stomach and dirt under your fingernails. Highly recommended." -Edward Ashton, author of Mickey7 "The combination of climate apocalypse and political side effects, layered in levels of intrigue and mystery and leavened by romance, makes for an engrossing novel." -Library Journal "McGoran's nuanced characters are believable products of their denatured future and the suspenseful subterfuges they employ to survive keep the pacing brisk. It's a page-turning thrill ride." -Publishers Weekly "An entertaining read with a cinematic finish." -Booklist "The Price of Everything is razor sharp and relentless, a thrilling read that both honours and subverts the neon glow of cyberpunk. This book is a horrifyingly plausible dystopia set against the backdrop of the climate apocalypse and the collapse of the Internet of things. Timely and urgent, it rewires what the future could be, and will make you question everything you take for granted long after you put it down." -Lavanya Lakshminarayan, Arthur C. Clarke Award-nominated author of The Ten Percent Thief and the Flavour Hacker series "A cutting-edge humdinger of a science fiction tale... sure to please fans of William Gibson, Phillip K. Dick and Harlan Ellison. The Price of Everything carves out its own pop culture place as a masterstroke of contemporary commentary on the state of our digitally-dominated world. This is accessible science fiction storytelling of the absolute highest order." -BookTribMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Nottingham
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Rebellion Publishing Ltd.
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 129 mm
Width: 199 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
272 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-83786-235-1 (9781837862351)
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Jon McGoran is the author of ten previous novels for adults and young adults, including the YA science fiction thrillers Spliced, Splintered, and Spiked, the science thrillers Drift, Deadout, and Dust Up, numerous short stories and novellas, and licensed work for The Blacklist, The X-Files, and Zombies vs Robots. A freelance writer, writing teacher, and developmental editor and coach, he lives outside Philadelphia with his wife Elizabeth, a librarian.