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Journalist Georgina Powers is far from happy when ex-colleague Charlie East invites her for a wild weekend in Las Vegas and doesn't turn up until she's boarding the flight home. But for once he's got a good excuse. He won a million dollars in an all-day, all-night poker game with a Japanese gangster - the million is in highly desirable computer chips.
Georgina's revenge for her lonely weekend is to sell the story of Charlie's unique gamble to the tabloids. But because the chips are the hottest property around, Georgina finds herself hunted by the Japanese Mafia, Columbia drug cartels, and a gun-happy international computer dealer - all of whom think she's got the chips. Should she stay or run? Either way, will she live to write the scoop of the century?
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The London TIMES hailed Denise Danks as “one of the six best crime writers in the United Kingdom.” In her finger–on–the–pulse, high–tech thrillers, Danks has conjured up a savage, noirish underworld for her hard–living heroine, Georgina Powers.
About the Author
Denise Danks is a freelance computer journalist and author of five previous Georgina Powers novels. She was the first woman to win the Fulbright / Raymond Chandler Award for the most promising writer of crime/detective fiction and was recently described by The Times as one of the six best crime writers in the UK.
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- PublisherSt Martins Pr
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0312113552
- ISBN 13 9780312113551
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages217
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Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 1st ed. fine in dj. "The reason he never met her for the Las Vegas weekend he'd invited her to, ex-colleague Charlie East explains to rolling-stone computer newshound Georgina Powers (Frame Grabber, 1993, etc.) after they've met at McCarran Airport and flown together back to Heathrow, is that he got into a high-stakes poker game he couldn't leave till he was sure of the pot: a million dollars' worth of drams, aka "dynamic random access memory chips." . By this time Georgina has already met two of the other principals who'll figure in Charlie's oh-so-simple-sounding plan to convert the chips to cash and pay her back the ?50,000 he owes her: Hungarian gambler Pal Kuthy of AO Electronix, Charlie's potential buyer; and Shinichro Saito, Georgina's lover, who turns out to be the original seller of the chips. The only missing link is Hiroshi Sano, soon identified as the ``Al Sony'' who lost the chips to Charlie in the first place, even though he was under his company's orders to swap them for some prime Colombian blow. But the Colombians, together with the Japanese, Charlie, and Georgina, are all out of luck, because before Charlie can turn them around, the chips are hijacked from his safe-deposit box--the first of many, many reversals in this spirited round of musical drams." -- Kirkus Review. Book. Seller Inventory # 005947
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