Series: Book 3 in the Takeshi Kovacs series
Rating: Not rated
Tags: Fiction
Summary
This is high action, ideas driven noir SF of the highest
order. Morgan has already established himself as an SF author
of global significance. Takeshi Kovacs has come home. Home to
Harlan's World. An ocean planet with only 5% of its
landmasspoking above the dangerous and unpredictable seas. Try
and get above the weather in anything more sophisticated than a
helicopter and the Martian orbital platforms will burn you out
of the sky. And death doesn't just wait for you in the seas and
the skies. On land, from the tropical beaches and swamps of
Kossuth to the icy, machine-infested wastes of New Hokkaido the
hard won gains of the Quellist revolution have been lost. The
First Families, the corporations and the Yakuza have a
stranglehold on everything.Embarked on a journey of implacable
retribution for a lost love, Kovacs is blown off course and
into a maelstrom of political intrigue and technological
mystery as the ghosts of Harlan's World and his own violent
past rise to claim their due. Quellcrist Falconer is back from
the dead, they say, and hunting her down for the First Families
is a savage young Envoy called Kovacs who's been in storage