Broken Angels

Richard K. Morgan's Broken Angels returns to the twenty-fifth century of Altered Carbon, a setting where governments reach beyond Earth and a technology called stacking lets people survive death by transferring their minds into new bodies. Takeshi Kovacs, once a United Nations envoy and later a private investigator, is on his third career and his latest body. He now hires out as a mercenary, fighting for a distant world's government against a violent uprising.

Kovacs has no loyalty beyond himself, so when a rogue pilot and a crooked corporate tycoon recruit him for a dangerous treasure hunt, he quickly walks away from his contract. He joins a crew of revived soldiers for hire and sets out for an ancient alien ship they hope to salvage. Standing in their way are a slaughtered city soaked in lethal radiation, rogue nanotechnology that can kill in countless ways, and whatever the advanced Martian civilization has left behind.

Relying on his genetically enhanced reflexes and a pair of Kalashnikov rifles, Kovacs is prepared to face whatever comes next, caring little for anyone who gets left behind.