Some great things about Richard Morgan. Where do you start? He writes like a movie, I admit that can be a let down with some authors, but with Morgan he manages to pull off a gripping pace with a deeply involving plot. A definite noir feel permeates all of Morgans writing, always revolving around crime, war and nostalgic thought lines.
Broken Angels is a loose sequel to Altered Carbon, Morgans first. The book revolves - well follows really, Takeshi Kovacs (Eastern european "che")
He is an ex envoy, a trained killer and now a freelance mercenary. Takeshi finds himself going AWOL from his platoon and embarking on a desperate mission to recover some ancient alien artefacts.
I loved this book. It had a nice grounding, given to it by its predecessor on which Morgan could go wild, in a way this must have been a nice ride for him as an author just to focus on the characters and plot - rather than explaining away fifty pages on world building. Granted some of this book was fairly linear, only following the day to day of Kovacs, but makes up for with a gripping story and evocative scenes.
I cant fault Morgan really, he is so much the contemporary author - I revel in it.
(Side note: I didn't know he wrote the script for Crysis 2, and is supposedly on the line up for a movie adaption of Altered Carbon, Cross Fingers.)
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