Download or read book Altered Carbon written by Richard K. Morgan and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a twenty-fifth-century world in which death is nearly obsolete, thanks to a technology that allows a person's consciousness to be downloaded into a new body, former U.N. envoy Takeshi Kovacs, re-sleeved into a new body after a brutal death, finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly far-reaching conspiracy that could have horrifying repercussions. Reprint.