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Violence
Very heavy
Extreme violence; torture; graphic action
Language
A lot
Heavy profanity
Sexual Content
A lot
Explicit sexual content; adult entertainment depicted
Substance Use
Some
Drug use; future narcotics
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Themes of identity, mortality, and what happens to humanity when death becomes optional
What this book is about
Morgan's 2002 cyberpunk noir follows Takeshi Kovacs, a soldier whose consciousness is shipped to Earth to solve the murder of a wealthy man — a man who may have murdered himself. Extremely violent, sexually explicit, and brilliant. For adults only.
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Extreme violence
Explicit sexual content
Torture
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