Thirteen

✍ Scribed by Morgan, Richard K

• Book ID: 110496123
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 656 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780345498106

✦ Synopsis

The future isn't what it used to be since Richard K. Morgan arrived on the scene. He unleashed Takeshi Kovacs--private eye, soldier of fortune, and all-purpose antihero--into the body-swapping, hard-boiled, urban jungle of tomorrow in Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, and Woken Furies, winning the Philip K. Dick Award in the process. In Market Forces, he launched corporate gladiator Chris Faulkner into the brave new business of war-for-profit. Now, in Thirteen, Morgan radically reshapes and recharges science fiction yet again, with a new and unforgettable hero in Carl Marsalis: hybrid, hired gun, and a man without a country . . . or a planet.

Marsalis is one of a new breed. Literally. Genetically engineered by the U.S. government to embody the naked aggression and primal survival skills that centuries of civilization have erased from humankind, Thirteens were intended to be the ultimate military fighting force. The project was scuttled, however, when a fearful public...