Altered Carbon (Bk. 1)

It's the 25th century, and advances in technology have redefined life itself. Human consciousness can now be stored in the brain and downloaded into a new body (or "sleeve"), reducing death to a minor blip on a screen.

Onetime U.N. Envoy Takeshi Kovacs has been killed before, but his last death was particularly painful. Resleeved into a body in Bay City, Kovacs is thrown into the dark heart of a shady, far-reaching conspiracy that is vicious even by the standards of a society that treats existence as something that can be bought and sold. For Kovacs, the shell that blew a hole in his chest was only the beginning.