Altered Carbon

Before dawn, the protagonist, Takeshi Kovacs, sits in the kitchen smoking a cigarette. His partner, a mercenary named Sarah, sleeps in the other room while he preps their weapons. When he hears a helicopter outside, Kovacs wakes her up, and they prepare to leave. However, the wall suddenly explodes and commandoes rush in. Though Kovacs throws a gun to Sarah and she manages to shoot one of their attackers, the commandoes kill her. Kovacs, too, is shot and grievously wounded. He lunges for a gun on the table despite warnings from a commando.

Kovacs wakes from the dead in a new body. He has been taught to relax and let go before entering storage so as to minimize the shock, but his gunfight alongside Sarah makes him wake in a panic. A man who mispronounces his name calls him from the tank, and Kovacs deduces that he is no longer on his home planet of Harlan’s World. When Kovacs asks where he is, the man tells him he is in Bay City, on Earth.

A doctor walks Kovacs to the shower room, letting him know that the police are waiting for him outside, though she does not know why.