Vulture Capital (August Riordan Mystery) - Softcover

Mark Coggins

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0918395232 ISBN 13: 9780918395238

Publisher: Poltroon Press, 2005

Synopsis

In this sequel to Coggins' well-received, THE IMMORTAL GAME, a hot-shot Silicon Valley venture capitalist must unravel a conspiracy involving the perverse application of biotechnology from a start-up in which he has invested.

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From the Inside Flap:

"A trip through the dark satanic mills of venture capital with Chandler or Hammett as tour guide." --Salon.com "A truer picture of Silicon Valley can't be found." --CNBC "Dry ice sarcasm." --Wall Street Journal "Po Bronson, for all his talents, did not catch the Valley's entrepreneurial/venture capital lifeblood...as unerringly as Coggins." --Salon.com "Truly brings the California private eye novel into the 21st century." --Gale Group

About the Author:

Born in New Mexico in 1957, Mark earned two degrees and a Phi Beta Kappa key from Stanford University. He has worked for a number of Silicon Valley computer and venture capital firms, including Netscape Communications, VeriSign, Hewlett Packard Company and three (other) software start-ups.While at Stanford, Mark studied creative writing with Tobias Wolff and Ron Hansen and wrote the first story featuring his series character August Riordan in a class taught by Hansen. This story, "There's No Such Thing as Private Eyes" was later published in The New Black Mask, vol. 4, Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich.Mark's first novel, THE IMMORTAL GAME, was nominated for three mystery book awards and was selected for a number of respected "best of the year" lists, including those put together by the San Francisco Chronicle, the Detroit Free Press and mystery maven Otto Penzler. His second, VULTURE CAPTIAL, was recognized as a defining portrayal of the dark side of Silicon Valley. CNBC said of the book, "a truer picture of Silicon Valley can't be found," and Salon.com, "Vulture Capital gives us Northern California in the 21st century, as noir as it ever was." Mark has published other short fiction in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and he is the author of several nonfiction articles, including a profile of photographer Mark Citret in View Camera magazine.Mark has been the keynote speaker at computer software conferences and an invited instructor at writers' conferences, including The Book Passage Mystery Writers Conference. He has appeared on television and radio to discuss his work as well as the real world events and issues that inform it, such as Silicon Valley culture and venture capital.He lives in San Francisco with his wife Linda and their cat Taki, and is currently at work on his fourth August Riordan novel, RUNOFF.

About this edition

• Publisher: Poltroon Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0918395232
• ISBN 13: 9780918395238
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 351