Synopsis
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In
the 26th century
mankind has spread
through the
galaxy, taking its
religions and
racial divisions
out into the cold
arena of
space. While
tensions exist and
small dirty wars
flare up every now
and then, the UN
Protectorate
maintains an iron
grasp on the new
worlds, aided by
its very own elite
shock-troops: the
Envoy Corps.
Meanwhile, what
religion cannot
guarantee
technology has
already delivered;
when your
consciousness can
be stored in a
cortical stack and
routinely
downloaded into a
new body, even
death has become
little more than
an
inconvenience.
As long as you can
afford a new body
... Ex-UN Envoy
Takeshi Kovacs has
been killed
before; it was a
hazard of the job,
but his last death
was particularly
brutal.
Needlecast across
light years of
space, re-sleeved
into a body in San
Francisco on Old
Earth and thrown
into the centre of
a conspiracy that
is vicious even by
the standards of a
society that has
forgotten how to
value life, he
soon realises that
the shell that
blew a hole in his
chest on Harlan's
World was only the
beginning of his
problems. |
