Agency (The Jackpot Trilogy Book 2)

Agency (The Jackpot Trilogy Book 2)

<b>"One of the most visionary, original, and quietly influential writers currently working" (<i>The Boston Globe</i>) returns with a sequel to the<i> New York Times </i>bestselling <i>The Peripheral</i>.</b><br /><br />Verity Jane, gifted app-whisperer, out of work since her exit from a brief but problematic relationship with a Silicon Valley billionaire, signs the wordy NDA of a dodgy San Francisco start-up, becoming the beta-tester for their latest product: a digital assistant, accessed through a pair of ordinary-looking glasses. "Eunice," the disarmingly human AI in the glasses, soon manifests a face, a fragmentary past, and an unnervingly canny grasp of combat strategy. Verity, seeing that her cryptic new employers don't yet know this, instinctively decides that it's best they don't.<br /> <br />Meanwhile, a century ahead, in a fundamentally altered London, the result of a timeline in which Hillary Clinton didn't become president, Wilf Netherton works amid plutocrats and plunderers, survivors of the slow-and-steady apocalypse known as the Jackpot. His employer, the enigmatic Ainsley Lowbeer, can look into alternate pasts and nudge their ultimate directions. Verity and Eunice have become her current project.<br /> <br />Wilf can see what Verity and Eunice can't--their own version of the Jackpot, just around the corner. And something else too: the roles they may play in it.