This is high action ideas driven noir SF of the highest order. Morgan has already established himself as an SF author of global significance. Takeshi Kovacs has come home. Home to Harlan's World. An ocean planet with only 5% of its landmass poking above the dangerous & unpredictable seas. Try & get above the weather in anything more sophisticated than a helicopter & the Martian orbital platforms will burn you out of the sky. & death doesn't just wait for you in the seas & the skies. On land from the tropical beaches & swamps of Kossuth to the icy machine-infested wastes of New Hokkaido the hard won gains of the Quellist revolution have been lost. The First Families the corporations & the Yakuza have a stranglehold on everything. Embarked on a journey of implacable retribution for a lost love Kovacs is blown off course & into a maelstrom of political intrigue & technological mystery as the ghosts of Harlan's World & his own violent past rise to claim their due. Quellcrist Falconer is back from the dead they say & hunting her down for the First Families is a savage young Envoy called Kovacs who's been in storage