Broken Angels

Richard K. Morgan

Apr 2005 · Kovacs Book 2 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Todd McLaren

About this audiobook

Cynical, quick-on-the-trigger Takeshi Kovacs, the ex-U.N. envoy turned private eye, has changed careers, and bodies, once more...trading sleuthing for soldiering as a warrior-for-hire, and helping a far-flung planet's government put down a bloody revolution. But when it comes to taking sides, the only one Kovacs is ever really on is his own. So when a rogue pilot and a sleazy corporate fat cat offer him a lucrative role in a treacherous treasure hunt, he's only too happy to go AWOL with a band of resurrected soldiers of fortune. All that stands between them and the ancient alien spacecraft they mean to salvage are a massacred city bathed in deadly radiation, unleashed nanotechnolgy with a million ways to kill, and whatever surprises the highly advanced Martian race may have in store. But armed with his genetically engineered instincts, and his trusty twin Kalashnikovs, Takeshi is ready to take on anything-and let the devil take whoever's left behind.

Ratings and reviews

While the concept and storyline itself we're good. The author inputs long winded background details / internal dialogue, in the middle of dialogue between characters. So much so that you lose context of the interaction between characters. There were numerous sections of the book where I felt the author input a verbal diarrhea of internal dialogue that I had to force myself not to skip ahead with. Not to. mention his sex scenes are overly graphic and drawn out to the point of awkwardness

Best book I've read in awhile! I do think the 1st book was better though.

Loved it

About the author

Richard K. Morgan is the acclaimed author of Market Forces, Broken Angels, and Altered Carbon, a New York Times Notable Book that also won the Philip K. Dick Award. Morgan sold the movie rights for Altered Carbon to Joel Silver and Warner Bros. He lives in Scotland.

Todd McLaren was involved in radio for more than twenty years in cities on both coasts. He left broadcasting for a full-time career in voice-overs, where he has been heard on more than 5,000 TV and radio commercials, as well as TV promos, narrations for documentaries on such networks as A&E and the History Channel, and films.