Geek mafia
By: Rick Dakan.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: PM fiction series -- 1
Publisher: PM Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oakland, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781604860061
Subjects: Computer programmers -- Fiction; Video games industry -- Fiction; Software piracy -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: G33k mafia
Description: 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 falls in for the.