Takeshi Lev Kovacs is the protagonist in the books Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, and Woken Furies by Richard K. Morgan, which take place in or around the 26th century.
He was eventually imprisoned, his cortical "stack" stored without a body (or "sleeve") for decades at a time as punishment, before being paroled or hired out to work high-risk situations.
[7] Another aspect that figures prominently in an Envoy's training is the systematic removal of every violence-limiting instinct a human is born with.
Due to this training, most worlds prohibit past or present Envoys from holding any political or military office.
[15] In the spin-off animated film Altered Carbon: Resleeved, Kovacs is voiced by Tatsuhisa Suzuki and Ray Chase in Japanese and English respectively.