This is highly action-packed, idea-driven noir science fiction of the highest quality. Morgan has already established himself as a globally significant science fiction author. Takeshi Kovacs has returned to Harlan's World, an ocean planet whose landmass only rises 5% above the dangerous and unpredictable seas. Try to get through the weather in anything other than a helicopter, and the orbital platforms of Mars will burn you from the sky. Death awaits you not only in the seas and skies. On land, from the tropical beaches and swamps of Kossuth to the icy, machine-infested wastelands of New Hokkaido, the hard-won achievements of the Quellist Revolution have been lost. The First Families, the corporations, and the Yakuza have everything in a chokehold.

On a journey of unrelenting vengeance for a lost love, Kovacs is derailed and pulled into a whirlpool of political intrigue and technological secrets, as the ghosts of Harlan's World and his own violent past rise to demand their due. Quellcrist Falconer is said to have returned from the dead, and hunting her for the First Families is a brutal young envoy named Kovacs, who has been in storage.