Broken Angels is a novel by author Richard K. Morgan and is one of the novels in a series of Takeshi Kovacs novels. In this novel, the setting is the 25th Century and it takes place in space. The main character is Takeshi Kovacs, a former U.N. envoy soldier. Kovacs is now an independent warrior. In the 25th Century and in the world which Kovacs lives, when someone dies, they can be resleeved or put into a new body. While Kovacs is recovering from war injuries in a hospital, he meets a rogue pilot by the name of Jan Schneider. Jan Schneider talks Kovacs into working on a mission with him to dig up a hidden Martian spaceship.