Woken Furies: A Takeshi Kovacs Novel

Richard K. Morgan

Feb 2006 · Kovacs Book 3 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by William Dufris

About this audiobook

Once a gang member, then a marine, then a galaxy-hopping Envoy trained to wreak slaughter and suppression across the stars, a bleeding, wounded Kovacs was chilling out in a New Hokkaido bar when some so-called holy men descended on a slim beauty with tangled, hyperwired hair. An act of quixotic chivalry later and Kovacs was in deep: mixed up with a woman with two names, many powers, and one explosive history. In a world where the real and virtual are one and the same and the dead can come back to life, the damsel in distress may be none other than the infamous Quellcrist Falconer, the vaporized symbol of a freedom now gone from Harlan's World. Kovacs can deal with the madness of AI. He can do his part in a battle against biomachines gone wild, search for a three-centuries-old missing weapons system, and live with a blood feud with the yakuza, and even with the betrayal of people he once trusted. But when his relationship with "the" Falconer brings him an enemy specially designed to destroy him, he knows it's time to be afraid. After all, the guy sent to kill him is himself: but younger, stronger, and straight out of hell.

Ratings and reviews

LISTEN LONGER THAN THE FIRST SECTION!!! It sounds bad at first but that's because the narrator uses audio effects throughout his reading. Slightly too much reverb. He uses the different sound effects to simulate different situation and further in the story it works and sounds better and assists in diving further into the story. Very creative touch. I, for one, think it's different and pretty cool. Yes he pronounces the names and such wrong. Petty stuff.

This has absolutely terrible initial audio quality. I have no idea how this made it past the screeners or was published professionally. the reader also has no idea how to pronounce the main character's name which is clearly spelled out in a previous novel.

Terrible recording, sounds like it was recorded in someone's basement. And the reader... Mispronouncs the main charactera name! Terrible, couldn't get past ten minutes.

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.

William Dufris has been nominated nine times as a finalist for the APA's prestigious Audie Award and has garnered twenty-one Earphones Awards from AudioFile magazine, which also named him one of the Best Voices at the End of the Century.