Woken Furies

About this book

Richard K. Morgan has received widespread praise for his astounding twenty-fifth-century novels featuring Takeshi Kovacs and has established a growing legion of fans. Mixing classic noir sensibilities with a searing futuristic vision of an age when death is nearly meaningless Morgan returns to his saga of betrayal mystery and revenge as Takeshi Kovacs in one fatal moment joins forces with a mysterious woman who may have the power to shatter Harlans World forever. Once a gang member then a marine then a galaxy-hopping Envoy trained to wreak slaughter and suppression across the stars a bleeding wounded Kovacs was chilling out in a New Hokkaido bar when some so-called holy men descended on a slim beauty with tangled hyperwired hair. An act of quixotic chivalry later and Kovacs was in deep: mixed up with a woman with two names many powers and one explosive history. In a world where the real and virtual are one and the same and the dead can come back to life the damsel in distress may be none other than the infamous Quellcrist Falconer the vaporized symbol of a freedom now gone from Harlans World. Kovacs can deal with the madness of AI. He can do his part in a battle against biomachines gone wild search for a three-centuries-old missing weapons system and live with a blood feud with the yakuza and even with the betrayal of people he once trusted. But when his relationship with the Falconer brings him an enemy specially designed to destroy him he knows its time to be afraid. After all the guy sent to kill him is himself: but younger stronger and straight out of hell. Wild provocative and riveting Woken Furies is a full-bore science fiction spectacular of the highest orderfrom one of the most original and spellbinding storytellers at work today.