Jon McGoran
Cash is king, but change is coming.
Johnny Mnemonic meets John Wick in The Price of Everything, a heart-racing near-future cyberpunk thriller about climate change and corruption. In a world where cyberwarfare has resulted in an all-cash economy, a private courier of high-denomination currency finds himself on the run from his own guild’s assassins while navigating a dense network of money launderers, shell corporations, drugs dealers, privatized police forces, and climate activists when his client’s payload
vanishes.
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​When Armand Pierce first became a courier a decade earlier, he agreed to have a titanium cuff grafted onto the bones of his wrist and chained to an attaché case. He also took an oath: the delivery is everything. He can run, fight—kill, if he needs to—but the package gets where it’s going. Otherwise, he dies. It’s the Guild’s guarantee, and all business—legitimate or otherwise—depends on it.
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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 now threatens to upend the global order—and Pierce needs to get to the bottom of it before the Guild catches up to him.
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Praise for
The Price of Everything
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"McGoran conjures a vividly realized near-future dystopia and threads it with a sinewy crime caper. [His] 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.”
"A fast-paced sci-fi thriller...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 from McGoran.”
“A neatly crafted thriller with cyberpunk trappings and a grim, climate-disaster backdrop, McGoran’s latest is an entertaining read with a cinematic finish.”
Booklist
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"[This] 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. Is there a sequel coming?”
First Clue Reviews
(also selected The Price of Everything
“Book of the Week”)
“It’s so pleasant to read an action thriller that peels more layers than the average narrative. …It’s an action thriller through and through, but it also punches above its weight to speak about the state of our world and where it’s all heading… I commend McGoran for creating an intelligent and effective thriller that walks a fine line between total sci-fi and ultra realistic narrative. The result is a moody and atmospheric thriller.”
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“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.”
Ed Ashton, Mickey 7 and
The Fourth Consort
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“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
​Jon McGoran is the author of eleven novels, including The Price of Everything, as well as Spliced, Splintered and Spiked, a near-future YA science fiction/thriller trilogy that Kirkus calls, “Timely, thrilling, and more than a little scary.” His other books include the acclaimed ecological thrillers Drift, Deadout, and Dust Up, as well as The Dead Ring, based on the hit TV show, The Blacklist. Writing as D. H. Dublin, he is also the author of the forensic thrillers Body Trace, Blood Poison, and Freezer Burn.
When not writing novels and short fiction or cohosting The Liars Club Oddcast, McGoran teaches at Drexel University's creative writing MFA program and works as a freelance writer, developmental editor, and writing coach. Samples and more information are available here. He also works with Anne Dubuisson to offer a more comprehensive range of publishing and editing services. For more information, email jon@jonmcgoran.com.
Spliced was named to the American Library Association's inaugural LITA Excellence in Children’s and Young Adult Science Fiction Notable List, and is nominated for the 2019/2020 South Carolina Young Adult Book Award. Both Spliced and Splintered have been honored by American Bookseller’s Association as ABC Best Books for Young Readers. Jon McGoran was selected as a one of the authors for the Free Library of Philadelphia’s 2018 Field Family Author Series and Spliced has been named the 2020 One Summer, One Book for Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
Learn more about The Price of Everything here.
Learn more about Spliced and read an excerpt here.
Learn more about Splintered and read an excerpt here.
Learn more about Spiked, and read an excerpt here
Learn more about Jon's other books here
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