Title
Second Sister - Paperback
by Chan Ho-Kei (Author), Jeremy Tiang (Translator)
A reclusive Hong Kong PI and hacker investigates a teenager's mysterious death in this technological thriller by the author of The Borrowed.
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.
"Readers will savor every twist and turn of Chan Ho-Kei's tour de force. . . . Second Sister is a masterclass on the vagaries of our digital age." --Criminal Element
"[A] clever, twisty novel. . . . Fans of hacker thrillers such as Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander books will be amply rewarded." --Publishers Weekly, starred review, PW Pick
"Virtually irresistible, with twisty-turny, didn't-see-that-coming manipulations guaranteed to keep readers wide awake into the wee hours. . . . For readers, the provocative mix of urgent contemporary issues and page-turning action won't disappoint." --Shelf Awareness
Author Biography
Chan Ho-Kei was born and raised in Hong Kong. He has worked as software engineer, script writer, game designer and editor of comic magazines. His writing career started with the short story "The Murder Case of Jack and the Beanstalk," which was shortlisted for the Mystery Writers of Taiwan Award. He won the award the next year with "The Locked Room of Bluebeard." Chan's first novel, The Man Who Sold the World, won the Soji Shimada Mystery Award, the biggest mystery award in the Chinese-language world, and was published in five languages. He is also the author of the award-winning novel, The Borrowed.
by Chan Ho-Kei (Author), Jeremy Tiang (Translator)
A reclusive Hong Kong PI and hacker investigates a teenager's mysterious death in this technological thriller by the author of The Borrowed.
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.
"Readers will savor every twist and turn of Chan Ho-Kei's tour de force. . . . Second Sister is a masterclass on the vagaries of our digital age." --Criminal Element
"[A] clever, twisty novel. . . . Fans of hacker thrillers such as Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander books will be amply rewarded." --Publishers Weekly, starred review, PW Pick
"Virtually irresistible, with twisty-turny, didn't-see-that-coming manipulations guaranteed to keep readers wide awake into the wee hours. . . . For readers, the provocative mix of urgent contemporary issues and page-turning action won't disappoint." --Shelf Awareness
Author Biography
Chan Ho-Kei was born and raised in Hong Kong. He has worked as software engineer, script writer, game designer and editor of comic magazines. His writing career started with the short story "The Murder Case of Jack and the Beanstalk," which was shortlisted for the Mystery Writers of Taiwan Award. He won the award the next year with "The Locked Room of Bluebeard." Chan's first novel, The Man Who Sold the World, won the Soji Shimada Mystery Award, the biggest mystery award in the Chinese-language world, and was published in five languages. He is also the author of the award-winning novel, The Borrowed.
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