modified carbon is above all a wonderful story set in a future or death is not a fatality Since a chip installed in the shot used to save the consciousness of individuals and download into a new body if they have the means to afford it. Takeshi Kovacs is a mercenary, a soldier of the space veteran downloads and punch operations. He is hired by a billionaire who wants to know why he was killed, and worse why we tried to eliminate it permanently destroying its cortical chip. As a thriller, Kovacs is sinking into murky investigation or it should dredge the lower depths of society, where everyone is lying to him, where he gradually discovers through all of a society where the rich can stay forever young but when death remains a major challenge ... The story is turbulent, full of setbacks, with twists and turns that keep the reader in suspense until the final resolution. The author follows through the logic of his world, and remains consistent as and as it reveals its secrets. A great novel Space opera that is surpassed only by its grand suite, the fallen angels, or one will find the same hero in a radically different plot. Congratulations !!