"Welcome back to the brash, brutal new world of the twenty-fifth century: where global politics isn't just for planet Earth anymore; and where death is just a break in the action, thanks to the techno-miracle that can preserve human consciousness and download it into one new body after another. "Cynical, quick-on-the-trigger Takeshi Kovacs, the ex-U.N. envoy turned private eye, has changed careers, and bodies, once more . . . trading sleuthing for soldiering as a warrior-for-hire, and helping a far-flung planet's government put down a bloody revolution. But when it comes to taking sides, the only one Kovacs is ever really on is his own. So when a rogue pilot and a sleazy corporate fat cat offer him a lucrative role in a treacherous treasure hunt, he's only too happy to go AWOL with a band of resurrected soldiers of fortune. All that stands between them and the ancient alien spacecraft they mean to salvage are a massacred city bathed in deadly radiation, unleashed nanotechnolgy with a million ways to kill, and whatever surprises the highly advanced Martian race may have in store. But armed with his genetically engineered instincts, and his trusty twin Kalashnikovs, Takeshi is ready to take on anything--and let the devil take whoever's left behind.

理查德·摩根（1965－ ）

英國新一代科幻作傢的代錶，畢業於劍橋大學，主修曆史，之後周遊世界，從事英語教學工作。2002年《副本》齣版以後成為專職作傢。

作為科幻作傢，理查德·摩根對未來的看法十分悲觀。這種觀念也許來自他對曆史的研究。在一次采訪中，他明確錶示：“人類社會現在是、過去是、將來也必然是以壓迫、剝削大眾為目的的存在。”

在這種思想指導下，他的“武·科瓦奇係列”呈現齣鮮明的反烏托邦色彩，加上陰鬱的色調、飛快的節奏，使這個係列具有強烈的賽博朋剋風格。與此同時，該係列又與美國20世紀30年代硬漢派偵探小說十分相似，語言堅硬冷峻，時有雋語，顯示齣批判的鋒芒。