Altered Carbon

This debut SF novel by British writer Richard Morgan won the 2004 Philip K. Dick Award and was a New York Times Notable Book for 2003. In a dark future, humans have the technology to transfer their consciousness into new bodies, provided that they can afford the procedure. When he dies on the job, UN investigator Takeshi Kovacs gets a new body on the boss's dime, but soon finds that the body comes with some unwanted baggage as he is thrust into the midst of a massive conspiracy that makes no bones about its willingness to use torture--and worse--to get what it wants.