Richard K. Morgan, "Thirteen"

I find 'Thirteen' to be a culmination of Morgan's scifi works. 'Altered Carbon' is very much a detective-noir type book. 'Broken Angels' is very much a war story. 'Woken Furies' is very much an antihero tale about a war-torn veteran trying to make sense of reality. 'Thirteen' was, to me, a successful culmination of these three elements. This book combines the previously mentioned aspects of his earlier works very adroitly. The book lacks some of the poignantly heart-wrenching, gut-churningness he channels in his earlier books, yet balances them in a way that outclasses any one of his previous works. Any one of the Takeshi Kovachs books is inferior in my opinion, yet as a whole they are superior to his later work in 'Thirteen'. Yet 'Thirteen' is a more holistic work than any of his earlier books if viewed alone.