Broken Angels (Takeshi Kovacs #2) -

Richard K. Morgan

Del Rey

2004

384 páginas

12h 48m

ISBN-13: 9780345457714

Cynical, quick-on-the-trigger Takeshi Kovacs, the ex-U.N. envoy turned private eye, has changed careers, and bodies, once more... trading sleuthing for soldiering as a warrior-for-hire, and helping a far-flung planet’s government put down a bloody revolution.
But when it comes to taking sides, the only one Kovacs is ever really on is his own. So when a rogue pilot and a sleazy corporate fat cat offer him a lucrative role in a treacherous treasure hunt, he’s only too happy to go AWOL with a band of resurrected soldiers of fortune. All that stands between them and the ancient alien spacecraft they mean to salvage are a massacred city bathed in deadly radiation, unleashed nanotechnolgy with a million ways to kill, and whatever surprises the highly advanced Martian race may have in store. But armed with his genetically engineered instincts, and his trusty twin Kalashnikovs, Takeshi is ready to take on anything—and let the devil take whoever’s left behind.

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5 (Perfeito)

Richard K. Morgan is a great writer

This is the second Richard K. Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs I've read (and the second one he wrote). I am in love with the universe Morgan created. Despite it has been written a while ago, the projection of technology surprisingly does not seem outdated. And Morgan writes very well: I enigma's pieces fall into places in the last chapter, just like in Altered Carbon. Furthermore, the scraps of Quellism he shows are deep and, perhaps for some, life-molding.