Richard K. Morgan has received widespread praise for his astounding twentyfifthcentury novels featuring Takeshi Kovacs, and has established a growing legion of fanes. Mixing classic noir sensibilities with a searing futuristic visión of an age when death is nearly meaningless, Morgan returns to his saga of betrayal, mystery, and revenge, as Takeshi Kovacs, in one fatal moment, joins forces with a mysterious woman who may have the power to shatter Harlan"s World forever. Once a gang member, then a marine, then a galaxyhopping Envoy trained to wreak slaughter and suppression across the stars, a bleeding, wounded Kovacs was chilling out in a New Hokkaido bar when some socalled 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 cánido 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 perro deal with the madness of AI. He perro do his part in a battle against biomachines gone wild, search for a threecenturiesold 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. Wild, provocative, and riveting, Woken Furies is a fullbore science fiction spectacular of the highest orderfrom one of the most original and spellbinding storytellers at work today