- Paperback: 351 pages
- Publisher: Poltroon Pr; 2 Reissue edition (September 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0918395232
- ISBN-13: 978-0918395238
- Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 12.7 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 431 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,713,638 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"[A] truer picture of Silicon Valley can't be found." -- Cory Johnson, CNBC Silicon Valley Correspondent
"[T]he hard-boiled twists come with a high-tech spin ... [and] there are plenty of nasty chuckles en route." -- Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
"[T]he hard-boiled twists come with a high-tech spin ... [and] there are plenty of nasty chuckles en route." -- Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Book Description
This chilling technological thriller finds venture capitalist Ted Valmont belatedly informed that the chief technical officer of NeuroStimix-a biotech firm in which he has invested-is missing. Valmont engages August Riordan to assist in the search and the men soon discover that the disappearance is part of a larger conspiracy to use NeuroStimix technology for perverse applications. With black-and-white photographs that add a unique aspect to this genre, this book is a sardonic study of the post dot-com world of Silicon Valley and venture capital.
--This text refers to the
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Fine, distinctive, new noir,
By billpz "billpz" (near Berkeley, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Vulture Capital (Hardcover)
An extradorinarily fine and distinctive mystery. Noir updated and downloaded. And a savage morality play.Focused writing. And it has enough secrets that it is easy to be surprised, even when you think you're ahead of the plot. A cliffhanger, too. Fans of Coggins' first mystery will enjoy encountering the Riordan / Duckworth team from a different perspective.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Silicon Valley cool,
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This review is from: Vulture Capital (Hardcover)
Vulture Capital is a well executed, slightly twisted and weird, but completely believable story about the dark side of Silicon Valley's start-up community.Venture Capitalist Ted Valmont is informed that the brains behind a biotechnology start-up he's funded called NeuroStimix is missing. Without the technology guru, NeuroStimix's future is in jeopardy just as a new product designed to aid spinal cord injury victims is about to come to market. Valmont engages PI August Riordan to help find the missing man and we soon learn that the disappearance is part of a larger conspiracy to use NeuroStimix technology for dastardly purposes. To complicate matters, the missing man is Valmont's buddy and Valmont's own brother, as a spinal injury patient, would benefit from the NeuroStimix discovery. Co-founder of a failed Internet start-up, Mark Coggins injects lots of local color into his work. Technology-types and dot-com veterans will especially appreciate the Silicon Valley photos and clever quotes, which open each chapter. Settings and situations will be familiar to industry types, but the jargon is not overwhelming. The book is even dedicated to the Pets.com Sock Puppet. VULTURE CAPITAL is the second in a series featuring August Riordan, a private eye we first met in Coggins' well-reviewed debut THE IMMORTAL GAME (2000). THE IMMORTAL GAME received extraordinary attention for a debut title from a very small press. It was chosen as a Penzler pick and nominated for a Shamus Award. This would only happen because the book was good. Expect similar praise for VULTURE CAPITAL. According to the excellent Vulture Capital Website... we can expect more titles to come in the Riordan series
5.0 out of 5 stars
Coggins succeeds again with Vulture Capital,
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This review is from: Vulture Capital (Hardcover)
Witty and fast-paced, Vulture Capital is one fun read. Fans of The Immortal Game will be thrilled with the return of private eye August Riordan, and also the reappearance of his likeable sidekick Chris Duckworth. Newcomers and old fans alike will appreciate Coggins' vivid, stylish prose, well-developed plot line, complex characters, sparkling (and also very funny) dialogue, and the novel's San Francisco Bay Area locations depicted in the author's own photographs that introduce each chapter. I say "Hammet is a Coggins for the twentieth century."
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