Neon Courier: Volume One A razor-wire espionage thriller where time is contraband and bureaucracy is a weapon. In a rain-slicked near-future city, couriers like Edward Sharp live by clean routes, cold probabilities, and contracts that never ask questions. One dead drop changes everything: a black case containing a data chip-and a seamless chrome object that breaks the rules of reality itself. The paradox package. Cartographer wants it delivered in a closed loop. Meridian wants it extracted. Chronos wants it contained. At the center stands Sharp, racing through metro tunnels, truth chambers, and shadow networks while the package rewrites him into something the city can use as infrastructure. Dark, addictive, and unnervingly plausible, Neon Courier fuses William Gibson's neon-noir vision with John le Carré's surgical tension. A relentless chase where survival means becoming the anomaly that forces an entire system to look at itself-and blink first. "Peterson writes action with surgical clarity and builds tension the way a great handler builds a trap-quietly, patiently, and with total control." "Smart, ruthless, and strangely human-the kind of book that makes the city feel alive...and hungry." Volume One of a blistering new techno-thriller series.