What she sees, though, isn't what Burton told her to expect. He's offering Flynne a good price to take over for him. The novel follows two different plot lines, one that takes place in the near future and one that takes place in the distant future. The Peripheral was adapted into a 2022 television series by Scott Smith. He's supposed to get in their way, edge them back. The Peripheral is the first novel of The Jackpot Trilogy and was followed by Agency in 2020. 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 from implants 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. "William Gibson returns with his first novel since 2010's New York Times-bestselling Zero History. Depending on her veteran brother's benefits in a city where jobs outside the drug trade are rare, Flynne assists her brother's latest beta-test tech assignment only to uncover an elaborate murder scheme.
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