I guess the first book of the Takeshi Kovacs trilogy - Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan - is non-CHUD, as it criticizes billionaires heavily and it definitely has a noir atmosphere mixed with its cyberpunk atmosphere. The noir part disappears from the two following books though.
Also, the trilogy as a whole is definitely leftists as you end up...
Slight spoiler
...following a group of anarchists bent on destroying a multiplanetary oligarchy
Also, even the first book has Quellcrist Falconer and that's a bad-ass leftist character.
I guess the first book of the Takeshi Kovacs trilogy - Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan - is non-CHUD, as it criticizes billionaires heavily and it definitely has a noir atmosphere mixed with its cyberpunk atmosphere. The noir part disappears from the two following books though.
Also, the trilogy as a whole is definitely leftists as you end up...
Slight spoiler
...following a group of anarchists bent on destroying a multiplanetary oligarchy
Also, even the first book has Quellcrist Falconer and that's a bad-ass leftist character.