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Takeshi Kovacs, a former elite soldier turned criminal, is "resleeved" on Earth—a planet he has never visited—to solve a murder. The catch? The victim is the man who hired him: Laurens Bancroft, a "Meth" who was killed just hours before his latest backup, leaving him with no memory of his own death. What Works Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1) - Goodreads 28 Feb 2002 —

The Meths are not just rich; they are a different species. Having lived for 500+ years, they have accumulated sociopathy as a survival skill. Bancroft is a raging, narcissistic hypocrite. His wife is a bored predator. Morgan argues that absolute life leads not to wisdom, but to absolute boredom and absolute cruelty. The gap between the sleeved and the unsleeved is wider than any racial or economic gap in history. Altered Carbon Book

The novel’s universe hinges on one invention: . Implanted at age one, these tiny memory-alloy devices store the entirety of a human consciousness—memories, personality, trauma, and desire. Death is no longer permanent. If your body is destroyed, your "stack" can be retrieved and "resleeved" into a new body (a sleeve), whether a cheap synthetic, a clone, or a convicted criminal’s donated form. Takeshi Kovacs, a former elite soldier turned criminal,