SF Noir, hmm?

I told you that Dad finished his last book. He's moved on to Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan. It has an intriguing premise--quasi-military man with a shady background is paroled from his sentence to have his recorded consciousness inserted into a body to investigate a death. Yeah, the only way to make it any clearer is to go much farther into detail than I feel like going. Anyway, Dad is enjoying it, but he thinks the author is trying too hard to write with a hard boiled edge.