It was a revelation - the fully-fleshed-out world of Takeshi Kovacs is dizzying in its hard boiled inventiveness. It wasn’t perfect, but I did enjoy it enough to be intrigued when spotting that it was based on an original novel. Then I delved into Altered Carbon on Netflix. So I’d been itching to find a new supply of what I like with little success. it’s like the bears and the porridge, we all know what we enjoy. Richard Morgan is set to join the genre's world-wide elite. This is SF at its dizzying best: superb, yet subtle, world-building strong yet sensitive characterisation awesome yet believable technology, thilling yet profound writing. BROKEN ANGELS melds SF, the war novel and the spy thriller to take the reader below the surface of this future and lay bare the treacheries, betrayals and follies that leave man so ill-prepared for the legacy he has been given: the stars. A breakneck-paced crime thriller, ALTERED CARBON took its readers deep into the universe Morgan had so compellingly realised without ever letting them escape the onward rush of the plot. Here is a novel that takes mankind to the brink. He is offered the chance to join a covert team chasing a prize whose value is limitless - and whose dangers are endless. Fifty years after the events of ALTERED CARBON, Takeshi Kovacs is serving as a mercenary in the Procterate-sponsored war to put down Joshuah Kemp's revolution on the planet Sanction IV.
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