William Gibson is the celebrated author of Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Burning Chrome, Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow’s Parties, Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, Zero History, and Distrust That Particular Flavor. It might be a game, but it might also be murder. What she sees, though, isn’t what Burton told her to expect. He’s offering Flynne a good price to take over for him. He’s supposed to get in their way, edge them back. The job seems to be simple: work a perimeter around the image of a tower building. Beta-testing part of a new game, he tells her. Then one night Burton has to go out, but there’s a job he’s supposed to do-a job Flynne didn’t know he had. Fortunately, Burton has his veteran’s benefits, for neural damage he suffered during his time in the USMC’s elite Haptic Recon force. Where Flynne and her brother Burton live, jobs outside the drug business are rare. The “peripherals” of the title are quasi-human drone bodies, with full tactile feedback, operated from any distance, which have erased any lingering distinction between the Web and the world. North American master of letters William Gibson returns with his first novel in four years, The Peripheral, a high-tech thriller partly set in a decadent post-apocalyptic future.
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