{"product_id":"book-dk1i","title":"Second Sister","description":"\u003cp\u003eChan Ho-Kei's \u003cem\u003eThe Borrowed\u003c\/em\u003e was one of the most acclaimed international crime novels of recent years, a vivid and compelling tale of power, corruption, and the law, spanning five decades of the history of Hong Kong. Now he delivers \u003cem\u003eSecond Sister\u003c\/em\u003e, an up-to-the-minute tale of a Darwinian digital city where everyone from tech entrepreneurs to teenagers is struggling for the top.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA schoolgirl-Siu-Man-has committed suicide, leaping from her twenty-second floor window to the pavement below. Siu-Man was an orphan, and Nga-Yee, the librarian older sister who'd been raising her, refuses to believe there was no foul play-although nothing seemed amiss. She contacts a man known only as N-a hacker and an expert in cyber-security and manipulating human behavior. But can Nga-Yee interest him sufficiently to take her case, and can she afford it if he says yes?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat follows is a cat-and-mouse game through the city of Hong Kong and its digital underground, especially an online gossip platform, where someone has been slandering Siu-Man.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe novel is also populated by a man harassing girls on mass transit; high school kids, with their competing agendas and social dramas; a Hong Kong digital company courting an American venture capitalist; and the Triads, market women and noodle shop proprietors who frequent N's neighborhood of Sai Wan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the end, it all comes together to tell us who caused Siu-Man's death and why, and to ask-in a world where online and offline dialogue has forgotten about the real people on the other end-what is the proper punishment?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49292471271728,"sku":"BDdk1i","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49292471304496,"sku":"ZEdk1i","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49292471337264,"sku":"ZMdk1i","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/dk1i-Square-cover.jpg?v=1775895977","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-dk1i","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}