Richard K Morgan Books in Order

Centuries in the future, former Envoy soldier Takeshi Kovacs is downloaded into a new body on Earth to investigate the death of ultra rich industrialist Laurens Bancroft. Officially it was suicide, but as Kovacs digs he uncovers corruption, exploitation and secrets worth killing for.

Decades after Altered Carbon, mercenary Takeshi Kovacs fights in a dirty corporate war on the planet Sanction IV. When a buried Martian starship is discovered, he joins a salvage team where rival interests, radiation and alien technology make every choice lethal.

Rising executive Chris Faulkner joins a conflict investment firm where corporate contracts and promotions are literally won on the highway. As he straps into armoured cars to duel rivals, he has to decide how much blood he is willing to trade for power.

Natasha Romanova is trying to live quietly when the outside world abruptly reminds her who she used to be. An attempt on her life drags her back into espionage and forces her to decide whether she can ever really retire from the killing business.

Still hunting those behind the hit, Natasha follows a bloody trail through corporate front companies and political back rooms. Using herself as bait, she tests how far she can push the people now trying to pull her strings.

Natasha turns a sting operation on its head by volunteering as the target, drawing out hidden players inside the US security apparatus. Guest star Nick Fury steps in, but even he may not be able to shield her from the fallout.

Returning to Moscow for the first time in years, Natasha walks streets that feel familiar and foreign at once. What she finds of the old Red Room forces her to question which parts of her past were memories and which were carefully planted lies.

Armed with new knowledge about the Red Room program, Natasha goes looking for the people who built her into a weapon. Her search leads to the birthplace of the Black Widow project and a reckoning with the architects who still see young girls as expendable assets.

In the conclusion of the arc, Natasha has to decide what justice looks like for those who abused her and countless others. The choice she makes will echo through her relationships with allies and enemies across the Marvel universe.

In this collection, Natasha Romanova tries to leave the life of a covert operative behind until an assassination attempt blows up her cover. Following a chain of killings back to Moscow and the Red Room, she uncovers a trafficking ring and the truth about how Black Widows are made.

Declared an enemy of the state after the events of Homecoming, Black Widow flees to Cuba and reluctantly partners with fellow graduate Yelena Belova. Together they hunt the people experimenting on abducted girls, while old allies and enemies close in to settle scores.

Takeshi Kovacs returns to his homeworld of Harlan's World on a private crusade against a vicious religious order. Rumours that revolutionary icon Quellcrist Falconer might have somehow survived, and the appearance of a younger copy of Kovacs sent to kill him, force him to face his past.

Genetically engineered soldier Carl Marsalis is a legally restricted "Thirteen" variant, called in when one of his own kind escapes from a Martian penal colony. Tracking the fugitive across a divided future Earth forces Carl to confront prejudice, politics and what he was built to be.

War hero and outcast swordsman Ringil Eskiath is pulled from exile when his mother begs him to rescue a cousin sold into slavery. The search drags him into a conspiracy involving inhuman Dwenda, old comrades and a prophecy that could drown the world in blood.

Ringil Eskiath, Archeth and Egar Dragonbane join a perilous sea voyage to reach the drifting island where the Ilwrack Changeling sleeps, hoping to stop the Aldrain from returning. Along the way they tangle with fanatics, ancient machines and the long consequences of empire.

United States Special Forces Major Laurence "Prophet" Barnes leads Raptor Team on what should be a routine covert op in the Lingshan Islands. When an alien presence turns the mission into a nightmare, Prophet must keep his dwindling squad alive long enough to warn the outside world.

With Raptor Team shattered and the island freezing under alien influence, Prophet and the survivors fight running battles against both North Korean troops and inhuman machines. Their only hope is to reach extraction while piecing together what the Ceph really want from Earth.

The Ceph incursion escalates, forcing Prophet to choose between completing the mission and saving the civilians caught in the crossfire. As the nanosuits are pushed to their limits, the team realises the battle on Lingshan may just be the opening move in a much larger war.

Prophet takes the fight to the Ceph, gambling on a desperate strike that might cripple the aliens or doom his people. Inside the ice shrouded combat zone, loyalties are tested and the line between human weapon and expendable asset becomes dangerously thin.

New intelligence hints at a way to hurt the Ceph, but getting that data off the island means threading a path through collapsing battle lines. Prophet weighs sacrifice against survival as Raptor Team races to escape before the aliens overrun everything.

In the climax of the miniseries, Prophet makes a last stand to carry crucial knowledge out of Lingshan before the island and everyone on it are lost. The outcome will shape humanity's first real response to the Ceph invasion.

In the final A Land Fit For Heroes novel, swordsman Ringil Eskiath has chased the Illwrack Changeling across a collapsing world and begun to wield a dangerous otherworldly magic. Separated from his companions, he risks soul and sanity to confront ancient powers that want humanity erased.

Hakan Veil is an ex corporate Overrider, engineered to wake from hibernation ready to end crises with extreme force, now stuck on a corrupt, underfunded Mars. Hired to protect an Earth Oversight auditor probing a missing lottery winner, he uncovers conspiracies that could reshape the colony.

Takeshi Kovacs wakes in a frail body inside a brutal black site prison, with a hole where part of his memory should be. Learning that Envoys he once fought beside have been sold to an impossibly rich patron, he breaks out on a violent quest for answers and revenge.

Overrider Hakan Veil wants nothing more than some downtime after the events of Thin Air, but Mars has other plans. A missing corporate heir, a resurrected tech messiah and failing orbital weapons systems drag him back into crisis mode, with the whole planet at risk.

War veteran Duncan Silver hunts the Huldu, an inhuman fae race who emerged from a mysterious Forest that swallowed parts of Britain during the Great War. When he is hired to rescue a stolen child, he uncovers a larger game of power, vengeance and buried guilt.