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August Riordan #4
Bleak House Books
November 2007
On Sale: November 20, 2007
Featuring: Chris Duckworth; August Riordan; Lisa Lee
302 pages
ISBN: 1932557547
EAN: 9781932557541
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Mystery Private Eye
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. A runoff between the two remaining candidates is days
away, but it
takes Riordan mere hours to find the Director of Elections
dead in his
office. A visit to the offices of Columbia Voting Systems-
the
suppliers of the city's touch-screen machines-results in
another
corpse. A wide range of political interests share a stake
in the
election, so Riordan's got plenty of suspects. But when the Dragon Lady's beautiful daughter is attacked
after giving
Riordan a goodnight kiss, it starts to get personal. Soon,
Riordan is
in a race not only against the runoff deadline, but
against powerful
political movers and shakers, Chinatown gang members, and
crazed
anarchists, with only his techno-savvy, cross-dressing
friend Chris to
help. Apparently, the cost of fixing an election runs to as many
lives as it
does dollars, and if Riordan isn't careful, the price for
un-fixing it
may be more than he can afford...
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