No Man’s Land preview: Altered Carbon creator returns to the detective noir genre with a dark twist on World War I

Richard K. Morgan is best known for his 2002 Philip K. Dick Award-winning debut novel Altered Carbon, a hardboiled detective cyberpunk story that was adapted into a visually stunning Netflix series in 2018. Along with continuing the story of Takeshi Kovacs in two more books and a pair of graphic novels, Morgan also penned Black Widow comics and wrote for the first-person shooters Crysis 2and Syndicate. Now he’s returning to the hardboiled genre mashup with the standalone novel No Man’s Land, which follows a World War I veteran trying to find a baby stolen by the fae.