Second Sister: A Novel Chan Ho-Kei, Jeremy Tiang ebook#
Page: 432
Format: pdf / epub / kindle
ISBN: 9780802129475
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
From the author of the acclaimed novel The Borrowed, a very timely and propulsively plotted tale of cyberbullying and revenge, about a woman on the hunt for the truth about her sister’s death. Chan Ho-Kei’s The Borrowed was one of the most acclaimed international crime novels of recent years, a vivid and compelling tale of power, corruption, and the law spanning five decades of the history of Hong Kong. Now he delivers Second Sister, an up-to-the-minute tale of a Darwinian digital city where everyone from tech entrepreneurs to teenagers is struggling for the top. A schoolgirl—Siu-Man—has committed suicide, leaping from her twenty-second floor window to the pavement below. Siu-Man is an orphan and the librarian older sister who’s been raising her refuses to believe there was no foul play—nothing seemed amiss. She contacts a man known only as N.—a hacker, and an expert in cybersecurity and manipulating human behavior. But can Nga-Yee interest him sufficiently to take her case, and can she afford it if he says yes? What follows is a cat and mouse game through the city of Hong Kong and its digital underground, especially an online gossip platform, where someone has been slandering Siu-Man. The novel is also populated by a man harassing girls on mass transit; high school kids, with their competing agendas and social dramas; a Hong Kong digital company courting an American venture capitalist; and the Triads, market women and noodle shop proprietors who frequent N.’s neighborhood of Sai Wan. In the end it all comes together to tell us who caused Siu-Man’s death and why, and to ask, in a world where online and offline dialogue has increasingly forgotten about the real people on the other end, what the proper punishment is.Second Sister: a gripping crime thriller set in - Amazon.com "In this clever, twisty novelChan populates the plot with realistic characterizations. Fans of hacker thrillers such as Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander books will be Mystery/Thriller Book Review: Second Sister by Chan Ho-Kei Second Sister. Chan Ho-Kei, trans. from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang. Black Cat, $17 trade paper (512p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2947-5 The Second Sister by Claire Kendal - Fantastic Fiction Title: The Second Sister: A Novel Author(s): Claire Kendal ISBN: 0-06-279867-7 / 978-0-06-279867-1 (USA edition) Publisher: Harper Availability: Amazon The Second Sister by Marie Bostwick - Fantastic Fiction THE INSPIRATION FOR THE HALLMARK HALL OF FAME FILM CHRISTMAS EVERLASTING! From New York Times bestselling author Marie Bostwick comes Read The Second Sister Online by Rae D. Magdon | Books Read The Second Sister by Rae D. Magdon with a free trial. Read unlimited* books and audiobooks on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android. The Second Sister by Marie Bostwick - Goodreads THE SECOND SISTER by Marie Bostwick is an emotional and powerful story of As the book opens, it is Nov, 2016 and Alice is calling Lucy, her sister asking Second Sister by Chan Ho-Kei - NB I enjoyed this book immensely and indeed it is one of those that grabbed my attention straight away. This is a story of online harassment, The Second Sister - Bookshop From New York Times bestselling author Marie Bostwick comes an emotionally rich, inspiring novel about family, second chances--and the connections that