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“How much does it cost to fix an election?”
August Riordan—private investigator, jazz bass player, smart ass with a foolish heart—is going to find out. He’s been hired by Leonora Lee, the all-powerful “Dragon Lady” of San Francisco’s Chinatown, to investigate the results of the city’s recent mayoral election. It seems the Dragon Lady’s candidate failed to even carry the Chinese precincts, and she’s convinced that someone must have rigged the outcome by hacking the city’s newly installed touch-screen voting machines.
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Caroline Stockwell has a secret: she
and her best friend
Monica are "cam girls." Soliciting cash donations
and gifts via Amazon.com wish lists from anonymous admirers,
the young women have put up a web site featuring still photographs,
video and web diaries (aka blogs) to help pay their way through
art college. But when Caroline goes missing and her mother
Ellen engages jazz bass-playing PI August Riordan to find
her, Riordan discovers her secret and it appears to everyone
that someone she met through the web site is responsible for
her disappearance.
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When the world's most innovative computer chess software
is stolen, wisecracking, jazz bass-playing PI August Riordan
is hired to find it. Sifting through a San Francisco peopled
with bruising, ex-NFL henchmen, transvestite techno geeks,
and alluring, drug-addicted dominatrices, Riordan has got
his work cut out for him.
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When venture capitalist Ted Valmont is belatedly informed
that the Chief Scientist of NeuroStimix--a biotech firm in
which he has invested--is missing, it's not just business,
it's personal. Not only is the scientist an old school chum,
but his disappearance jeopardizes the development of NeuroStimix's
most important product: a device intended to aid spinal
cord injury victims. Since Valmont's twin brother, Tim, was
paralyzed
in a college diving accident, finding the CTO and getting
him back into harness is of the utmost importance to both
brothers.
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