Unlike the first Kovacs novel, this one stuck in my mind for particular images rather than the overarching plot: it's never going to be made into a film, but it'd have some spectacularly post-apocalyptic scenes in it if it did. (The trick is to carefully engineer the apocalypse, of course.)
Grabbed me enough to buy the next one, which is also good.
ISBN 0575075503. Search for this book on Wikipedia or isbn.nu.