![]() ![]() ![]() Morgan is one of those novelists for whom writing an "edgy" book means having all the characters precariously balanced just this side of loathsome, giving them as few redeeming qualities as possible and packing their dialogue with enough F-bombs to fill three Quentin Tarantino scripts. Much of the book - maybe too much - feels like he's going back to the same old well. There is not, exactly, a surfeit of originality, but you knew that when you saw Morgan's name on the byline. Is there entertainment to be had here? Oh, indeed. Add a little extra seasoning - say, by making our ex-war-hero protagonist middle-aged, paunchy and gay - then just heat and serve. Morgan novel, an edgy and violent tale featuring an anti-hero in a gloomy, war-torn world who is drawn into a complex drama involving criminals, creeps, conspiracies and cover-ups, upon which the very fate of civilzation itself will ultimately hang. And the result is - drum roll, please - a Richard K. ![]() Morgan, the firebrand Scots writer who took a cattle prod to the gonads of stodgy post-cyberpunk SF noir with his edgy and violent Takeshi Kovacs trilogy and his edgy and violent exegesis on racism and xenophobia, Thirteen, now trains his sights on heroic fantasy. ![]()
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