Novels

Once a hustler scraping by in the Budayeen, Marid Audran now serves as policeman and envoy for Friedlander Bey, the city’s powerful godfather. Though wealth and influence surround him, Marid longs for the independence he sacrificed, even as he navigates a fragile balance of loyalty and survival.

But the Budayeen is descending into chaos—killers on the loose, mutilated victims, and crimes pointing toward Abu Adil, Bey’s only true rival. Drawn into a brutal struggle for control, Marid realizes that power in the Budayeen always comes at a devastating price.

Liquid Cool gets much more on the noir side than any other in this novel - call it cyber-noir or sci-fi noir. Bright neon, sharp shadows, thugs in fedoras, laser guns at the ready, and bloody discarded bodies in alleys. You don’t see this kind of gritty action, suspense, thrills, and even laughs in any “normal” science fiction.

This case introduces our hero detective, Cruz, to a threat he has never dealt with before—killer androids!Welcome to the high-tech, low-life world of Liquid Cool.

In a future where human consciousness can be transferred between bodies, ex-Envoy soldier Takeshi Kovacs is hired to solve the apparent suicide of a wealthy man. With his mind forcibly uploaded into a new body, Kovacs navigates a world of corruption, technology, and violence to uncover the truth behind the murder.

The novel explores cyberpunk themes of transhumanism, corporate dominance, and the commodification of identity. Its gritty noir style and philosophical questions about mortality and selfhood set it apart. Altered Carbon revitalized cyberpunk in the early 2000s, becoming a modern cult classic and later inspiring a Netflix adaptation.

In this sequel to Altered Carbon, Takeshi Kovacs, now a mercenary, is drawn into a high-stakes mission to uncover an ancient Martian artifact on a war-torn planet. As corporate and military forces close in, Kovacs must navigate treacherous alliances while questioning the nature of power, war, and alien technology.

Expanding on cyberpunk’s themes of corporate greed, body augmentation, and digital consciousness, Broken Angels leans heavily into military sci-fi while retaining the noir and transhumanist elements of its predecessor. The novel broadens Kovacs’ universe, introducing extraterrestrial mysteries that set it apart from typical cyberpunk narratives.

Embarked on a journey of implacable retribution for a lost love, Kovacs is blown off course and into a maelstrom of political intrigue and technological mystery as the ghosts of Harlan's World and his own violent past rise to claim their due.

Quellcrist Falconer is back from the dead, they say and hunting her down for the First Families is a savage young Envoy called Kovacs who's been in storage.