num_pages: 227
description: When the world's most innovative computer chess software is stolen, wisecracking, jazz bass-playing PI August Riordan is hired to find it.Sifting through a San Francisco peopled with bruising, ex-NFL henchmen, transvestite techno geeks, and alluring, drug-addicted dominatrices, Riordan has got his work cut out for him.But with a smart-ass attitude like Riordan's, nothing is easy ...A darkly comic sojourn through a town unrecognizable from the Tony Bennett song and the Rice-a-Roni ads, The Immortal Game is a Shamus, Barry, and Independent Publisher (IPPY) award nominee.
language: English
title: The Immortal Game
titlecomplete: The Immortal Game (August Riordan, #1)
characters: August Riordan, Chris Duckworth
genres: Fiction, Thriller, Crime, Mystery
ratings_count: 81
places: San Francisco, California
series: August Riordan
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Barry Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Shamus Award
category: Best First PI Novel, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY)
category: Mystery/Suspense/Thriller (Finalist)
publisher: Createspace