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"ONE OF THE MOST VISIONARY, ORIGINAL, AND QUIETLY INFLUENTIAL WRITERS CURRENTLY WORKING" returns with a sharply imagined sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel The Peripheral.

William Gibson has trained his gifted eye on the future for decades, ever since coining the term "cyberspace" and then popularizing it in his classic speculative novel Neuromancer in the early 1980s. Cory Doctorow raved that The Peripheral is "spectacular, a piece of trenchant, far-future speculation that features all the eyeball kicks of Neuromancer." Now Gibson is back with Agency-a science fiction thriller heavily influenced by our most current events.

Verity Jane, gifted app whisperer, takes a job as the beta tester for a new product: a digital assistant, accessed through a pair of ordinary-looking glasses. "Eunice," the disarmingly human AI in the glasses, manifests a face, a fragmentary past, and a canny grasp of combat strategy. Realizing that her cryptic new employers don´t yet know how powerful and valuable Eunice is, Verity instinctively decides that it´s best they don´t.

Meanwhile, a century ahead in London, in a different time line entirely, Wilf Netherton works amid plutocrats and plunderers, survivors of the slow and steady apocalypse known as the jackpot. His boss, the enigmatic Ainsley Lowbeer, can look into alternate pasts and nudge their ultimate directions. Verity and Eunice are her current project. Wilf can see what Verity and Eunice can´t: their own version of the jackpot, just around the corner, and the roles they both may play in it.

The Boston Globe

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Praise for William Gibson

"His eye for the eerie in the everyday still lends events an otherworldly sheen."-The New Yorker

"William Gibson can craft sentences of uncanny beauty, and is our great poet of crowds."-San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

"Like Pynchon and DeLillo, Gibson excels at pinpointing the hidden forces that shape our world."-Details

"Gibson´s radar is deftly tuned to the changes in the culture that many of us are missing."-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

"Gibson writes like he´s spent years embedded in a shadow world that touches everyone though very few know it exists."-San Antonio Express-News

"Gibson´s work is all edge and chill and incipient panic...There´s not a speck of filler, not a hint of anachronism. Just sleek, high-gloss, hand-tooled cool...His worlds are so striking, so plausible, that you´re just happy to be along for the ride-until suddenly it hits you: Maybe you´re being followed."-Chicago Tribune

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William Gibson ´s first novel, Neuromancer , won the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the Philip K. Dick Award. He is also the New York Times bestselling author of Count Zero , Burning Chrome , Mona Lisa Overdrive , Virtual Light , Idoru, All Tomorrow´s Parties , Pattern Recognition , Spook Country , Zero History , Distrust That Particular Flavor , and The Peripheral . He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with his wife.

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