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Geek Mafia (2006)

de Rick Dakan

Sèrie: Geek Mafia (1)

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Fired from a job he hated at a company he loved, videogame designer Paul Reynolds is drowning his sorrows in late-morning margaritas when he meets an alluring, pink-haired conwoman named Chloe. With her gang of technopirate friends, Chloe helps Paul not only take revenge on his former employers, but also extort a small fortune from them in the process. What more could a recently unemployed, over-worked videogame designer in Silicon Valley ask for?In return for Chloe's help, Paul agrees to create counterfeit comic books for one of her crew's criminal schemes. In the process he… (més)
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It had me hooked the whole time! But it ended on a bit of a weird note for me. Still it was pretty awesome! ( )
  bookjunkie57 | Apr 17, 2015 |
Dakan is a fast paced novel for tech geeks and the adventurous at heart. The story revolves around Paul Reynolds, a comic artist turned game developer about to be fired from the company that he helped built, and Chloe a pink-haired con woman and her merry band of techno geek misfits. After the geek mafia helps him to exact revenge and a sizable sum of money from his former employers, Paul decides that he wants to be in with the group and suggests as his first heist to counterfeit comic books. This is a case of who is really conning who and ultimately in the end crime does not pay.
I liked the pacing of this novel and its ample amounts of creativity, and anybody who likes to surf the web and is fond of tech gadgets would feel quite right at home with this book, although I wouldn’t recommend it to the easily suggestible or impressionable at heart. The book is available as a free download or you can pay five dollars to support the author’s writing endeavors. ( )
  cafediarist76 | Jun 2, 2007 |
Fun and Fast. I bought it for $5 from the authors site. Well worth it and I'll be sure to buy the next one. I'm also a little biased as the author lives in the same town as me.
  jcopenha | Feb 3, 2007 |
I'm not going to lie; one of my main motivations for reading this book was knowing that I could get a free copy of it as an ebook from the author's website. I mean, it also seemed to have some interesting subject matter, but that ease of accessibility pushed me over the edge, and gave me a chance to read it over the Christmas holiday. And I'm really glad I did.
Depending on the type of person that you are, the ideas of "fraud", "graft", "comic book back-issue pricing", and "political donations" might seem like they're worlds apart. If you're someone like Rick Dakan, however, they make perfect sense together, and form the basis of a fast-paced, exciting caper novel.
The novels' protagonist is Paul Reynolds, comic book auter and video game designer who we meet in the process of being given the bum's rush by his former business partners. He happens to meet up with Chloe, a self-described modern-day pirate who offers to help him "get even" with those that wronged him.
What follows after that is a standard sort of caper tale, lovingly dipped in geek culture. If you're the sort of person who likes both of those things, you'll probably really enjoy this book. The characters are believable, sympathetic, and enjoyable; the plot moves along at a fast pace, with just enough twists and turns to keep you guessing about where it's going next.
On the other hand, if you don't know what an FPS is, or haven't heard about open source movement, this may not be the book for you.
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  orangemonkey | Jan 17, 2007 |
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Fired from a job he hated at a company he loved, videogame designer Paul Reynolds is drowning his sorrows in late-morning margaritas when he meets an alluring, pink-haired conwoman named Chloe. With her gang of technopirate friends, Chloe helps Paul not only take revenge on his former employers, but also extort a small fortune from them in the process. What more could a recently unemployed, over-worked videogame designer in Silicon Valley ask for?In return for Chloe's help, Paul agrees to create counterfeit comic books for one of her crew's criminal schemes. In the process he

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