Each time I jump into the complex, noir-y, and slightly dizzying world of Richard K. Morgan's sci fi novels featuring Takeshi Kovacs, I wonder how Morgan does it. He creates a future world that is both disoriently different from our own yet also eerily (and perhaps depressingly) the same. Money still rules. People are still oppressed. Rebellions and resistance occur but are often crushed. In this future world, death is postponed for most because one's consciousness can be downloaded into a new body (or sleeve). The ramifications of this technology are just one of the many thorny issues that Morgan wrestles with as he once again sends Kovacs on a journey that has an extremely high body count. The plot is dense and twisty and I'm not going to go into it here, but it's worth the trip. That said, I wouldn't start the series with this book. Begin at the beginning with Altered Carbon and watch both Kovacs and Morgan develop.