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Kovacs and Ortega begin sleeping together and form a partnership. Kawahara orders Kovacs to end his investigation, or she will torture Sarah, who is currently in virtual storage.

He had rejected her offers of partnership, believing her to be cruel and manipulative. Kawahara is a Meth mob boss with whom Kovacs has dealt in the past. Trepp brings Kovacs to 'Ray', or Reileen Kawahara. Kovacs and Ortega are injured in an explosion orchestrated by Kadmin, who has escaped police custody. Kovacs escapes, destroys the brothel and clinic, and murders the employees in the process. A mysterious woman named Trepp says she will bring Kovacs to Ray, who is behind the clinic’s operations. He tells his interrogators that he is an Envoy and they release him.

He is tortured by physicians from the Wei Clinic, who deal in black market sleeve theft. He learns he is wearing the sleeve of Elias Ryker, a corrupt police officer and Ortega's lover. Kovacs investigates the brothel where Elizabeth worked. A high-level Russian operative named Kadmin tries to assassinate Kovacs, but fails and is captured. Laurens' wife, Miriam, seduces Kovacs and bribes him to end the investigation.

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Elizabeth's father is too poor to re-sleeve Elizabeth or to free his wife from the stacks. Elizabeth’s mother Irene was imprisoned for illegally hacking Bancroft’s memories. Kovacs discovers that Bancroft has been involved with numerous prostitutes, including recent murder victim Elizabeth Elliot. Though police officer Kristin Ortega believes he committed suicide, Bancroft is convinced he was murdered. The re-sleeved Bancroft has no memories of the previous two days, including his own death. On Earth, a Meth named Laurens Bancroft has died in mysterious circumstances in Bay City (formerly San Francisco). Kovacs is sentenced to a long term in stack storage. On the colony planet of Harlan’s World, Takeshi Kovacs and his partner Sarah Sachilowski, former Envoys who had returned to a life of crime, are killed by a U.N. Envoys are so successful and dangerous that they are generally prohibited from holding elected office on any world. They are an elite military group with extensive training in re-sleeving and psychological modification, as well as combat. In order to deal with the challenges of interspace warfare, the U.N. Numerous colony planets exist apart from Earth many were previously inhabited by an extinct alien civilization referred to as the Elders. Their consciousness is preserved and stored virtually, sometimes for decades, while their body is sold to the highest bidder to be used for re-sleeving another person. People who commit serious crimes are imprisoned 'on stack'. This ensures that even if their stack is destroyed, they can be re-sleeved.

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The very rich are also able to keep copies of their minds in remote storage, which they update regularly. Those who have lived for multiple lifespans are called Meths, a reference to the Biblical figure Methuselah. Only the wealthy are able to acquire replacement bodies on a continual basis. Thus, while people can live indefinitely in theory, most choose not to.

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While most people can afford to get resleeved at the end of their lives, they are unable to update their bodies and most go through the full aging process each time, which discourages most from resleeving more than once or twice. Dual-sleeving, or controlling two bodies with one personality, is strictly prohibited by U.N. This proposition reverses precedent and would allow authorities to temporarily re-sleeve a deceased Catholic woman to testify in a murder trial. At the start of the novel, UN Resolution 653 is being debated. This makes Catholics easy targets for murder, since killers know their victim may not be re-sleeved to testify. Roman Catholics do not allow their stacks to be re-sleeved after death, as they believe that the soul goes to Heaven when they die, and so would not pass on to the new sleeve. Their stacks can be downloaded into new bodies, or 'sleeves', after death. If their body dies, their stack can be stored indefinitely. Most people have cortical stacks in their spinal columns that store their consciousness. In the future, humans have achieved virtual immortality.