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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 cityβs recent mayoral election. It seems the Dragon Lady's candidate failed to even carry the Chinese precincts, and sheβs 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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