I love science fiction, but military science fiction isn't my first choice. However I am willing to go along with the military aspect if the characters and the setting are interesting and compelling. In the case of Broken Angels they simply weren't. The main character, ex-Envoy Takeshi Kovacs, who was interesting in the first book, Altered Carbon, becomes little more than a fighting machine who thinks about sex a lot in Angels. In addition, the fascinating technology that frames all three of the Takeshi Kovacs novels - namely that a human personality can be stored in a device called a "stack" which is embedded into the base of the skull at birth, thereby completely changing the nature of death, memory and humanity - starts to fall apart when the author doesn't take it to its logical conclusions but begins to poke holes in it as required to fit the plot.

As far as the universe Morgan has created, the sheer disregard for human life and the pain and suffering of others exhibited by the controlling governments and corporations makes the entire Kovacs universe seem like a slice of medieval hell. In the first third of the book an entire village is nuked out of existence as part of a war no one believes in and the body count just climbs from there.

If you feel like reading Richard Morgan, go find a copy of Sandman Slim, he wrote it under a different name but it's interesting and a lot of fun, which Broken Angels is not.