Trade sales of Morgan's last two novels hit 20,000 copies Morgan's cult anti-hero Takeshi Kovacs returns Hollywood Film Rights in Takeshi sold to Joel Silver for USD1million 150,000 copies of Richard Morgan titles in print in the UK market alone A massive hit in the USA Foreign rights sold in 13 countries Stellar reviews for all Morgan's books Morgan's first book was a WHS Fresh Talent title
Richard Morgan is 39 and was, until his writing career took off, a tutor at Strathclyde University in the English Language Teaching division. He has travelled widely and lived in Spain and Istanbul. He is a fluent Spanish speaker. He is married and lives in Glasgow. His previous books are: Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, and Market Forces.
Richard Morgan, never less than engrossing, his mastery of the SF thriller has brought a well deserved new kudos to the genre. - Peter F Hamilton''Morgan creates a narrative which is akin to a weapons-loaded ship crewed by angry pirates. An action packed thriller full of brilliantyl choreographed set-piece scenes. - Sfx''Underneath all the crowd pleasing violence, it is an interesting tale'' 3/5 - Dreamwatch - Anthony BrownThe characterisations are vibrant... a rich plot and trademark conceptual freestlying.. hits the retina like a laser beam and it's a true page turner. - Morning Star - Richard BagleyThis is a terrific book; the only problem is that it's quite hard to know quite what Morgan can do for an encore. - PA News - Alex SarllAs inventively nasty as Morgan's other novels about Kovacs. Morgan's world is one of unbridled capitalist thuggery where more goes wrong than the rest of us easily imagine. - TIME OUT - Roz KaveneyRichard Morgan's hardboiled SF books about the grimly blood-spattered 'hero' Takeshi Kovacs come with a formidable reputation and it's easy to see why. The third book, WOKEN FURIES, is terrific. Morgan's narrative can seem unsympathetically inhuman and amoral, only to pull you up short with deliciously ingenious SF twists on psycho-thriller melodramas. Remember, when a femme fatale starts chanting machine code at an intimate momen
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