Broken Angels

Broken Angels (2003) is the second Kovacs novel, shifting from noir detective thriller to military science fiction. Kovacs is fighting as a mercenary in a colonial war when he is recruited into a covert corporate mission to recover an alien artifact of enormous value. Where Altered Carbon used its premise to examine class and mortality in a future city, Broken Angels turns to the economics of interstellar colonialism and the relationship between corporate power, military violence, and the archaeology of alien civilizations. Darker and more expansive than its predecessor. Signed by Morgan on the title page.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, cloth boards with silver lettering on spine. London: Gollancz, 2003. ISBN: 0575073233. #10299.
Fine in fine dust jacket.