My friend David Blade has published his first book — The Case of the Cockamamie Killer. Be sure to check out an excerpt and buy a copy. It’s a helluva ride.

From the book description:

When a colleague is slain in cold blood, tough-guy word processor and private detective Chak Charon investigates–and soon finds himself out of a job, abducted from his apartment, and audited within an inch of his life. Pursued by a vicious IRS agent, Charon takes refuge in a Chinatown boarding house and proceeds to discover a dirty little secret: that the Internal Revenue Service is developing a computer virus designed to scavenge the private financial data of unsuspecting citizens.