This adult science fiction series is set in a future where human consciousness can be digitized and transferred between bodies, and follows a former soldier and trained killer who is hired to solve a murder in a world where the ultra-wealthy can effectively live forever by simply buying a new body. The series is dark, violent, and philosophically provocative, using its premise to explore questions of identity, mortality, and the social consequences of literal immortality.
In a future where human consciousness can be stored digitally and transferred between bodies, former soldier and criminal Takeshi Kovacs is resleeved into a new body to solve what the police ruled a suicide but the victim was so rich he could afford to be reborn, so the question is why he would want to die. A noir detective novel with extreme body horror and graphic violence set in a world where death is temporary but physical suffering is very real. A relentlessly dark and inventive cyberpunk thriller.