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"In the future, interstellar travel to alien worlds will be too expensive for most ordinary people. It certainly is for Marvin, a college student who wants to take a really good vacation. And so he signs up for what he can afford, a mindswap, in which your consciousness is swapped into the body of an alien lifeform. But Marvin is unlucky, and finds himself in the body of an interstellar criminal, a body that he has to vacate fast. But that criminal consciousness has stolen Marvin's earthly body, and Marvin has to find a body on the black market.
Travel from world to world with Marvin, each one crazier than the last, as he keeps finding far from ideal bodies in awful situations, just to stay alive."

Hopscotch by Kevin J. Anderson
"Suppose you could switch bodies with another person. What exciting new experiences would you choose to explore? What forbidden desires would you indulge? Suppose someone stole your life-how far would you go to get it back? A pure adrenaline thriller of hijacked identities, elusive motives, and deeply buried secrets."
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I'm looking for a Sci-Fi/Cyberpunk novel I read about a decade ago about a man whose career is to swap minds/bodies with a client (in exchange for a ridiculous amount of money) so he can live through unpleasant experiences for them, like exercising/getting fit, recovering from addictions, disease, and surgery.
Then something Goes Wrong, but I'm not sure what. Either something like his real body gets killed, or maybe he is stopped from swapping out of his clients body, which happens to be wanted/hunted for some reason.
Thanks for your help.