99 ways to die
By: Ed Lin
Series: The Taipei Nightmarket novel -- 3
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9781616959685
Subjects: Kidnapping; Extortion; Fiction
Other titles: Ninety-nine ways to die
Description: "The third funny, food-forward mystery by Ed Lin set in and around Taipei's bustling night market Jing-nan has known Peggy Lee, a bullying frenemy who runs her family's huge corporation, since high school. Peggy's father has been kidnapped, and the ransom the kidnappers are demanding is not money but IP: a high-tech memory chip that they want to sell in China. Jing-nan feels sorry for Peggy until she starts blackmailing him into helping out. Peggy is worried the kidnappers' deadline will pass before the police are able to track down the chip. But when the reluctant Jing-nan tries to help, he finds himself deeper and deeper in trouble with some very unsavory characters--the most unsavory of whom might very well be the victim himself"--