Black Man - Richard Morgan

Black Man. ========== This book has a feel of Bladerunner meets Jason Bourne meets Hitman. Carl Marsalis was created. Carl is a variant Thirteen. He was made to genetically be the best, the most perfect super soldier there had ever been. But something has gone wrong after his last mission Carl has lost his willingness to kill. His superiors refuse to believe and instead use him as a Hitman for the UN. However this failure to kill gets him into trouble and he ends up arrested and in jail in Miami. Carl thinks that now it must truly all be over with but then another Thirteen has just returned from Mars and is running around ...  Read the complete review

Black Man. Author - Richard MORGAN. Ok, here's a rough outline of the plot/plots, Carl Marsalis is a variant Thirteen (a genetically engineered subject of a failed government and military program, to create the deadliest of soldiers). He is now a hit man with a UN mandate to find and dispatch ROGUE thirteen's. The problem is that Carl has lost the will to kill. Then a job takes a turn for the worse and he's arrested in Miami. Carl believes that he can now leave his troubled past behind him. However, what APPEARS to be, a mentally unstable thirteen returns from Mars and crashes the ship he's on into the Pacific, Only to reappear later ...  Read the complete review