A modified carbon. Morgan R.

XXV century. Humanity has spread throughout the galaxy, and the technology has changed the very concept of life. Now people are able to record their own consciousness and easily load it into a new body. Death was only an obstacle on the screen.

Takeshi Kovach, a former member of the corps of extraordinary envoys, had already killed before, but the last death was especially unpleasant. Once in 180 light years from home, Kovach wakes up in a new body on the ground, where billionaire Laurence Bankroft instructs him to investigate the murder of his last body. The detective involuntarily does not yet know that he got to the very center of a real conspiracy, cruel and merciless even by the standards of society, where the existence of a person can be bought and sold for a long time.