Hung Sun Photos: Heather Farms, Walnut Creek

Flying the Coop

Game designer Bernard Walker finds his world taken hostage when police fail to solve a grisly murder. Desperate for the return of his new, million-dollar oceanfront view, he deploys his San Francisco startup's game-design tech — backed by jalapeño-infused hot dogs from a local minimart—to hunt down a highly elusive murderer.

Flying the Coop: The Video Game Mystery Novel pits video game designers against inept police officers, overpaid city officials, and irritating venture capitalists in a hilarious battle of wit, cunning, and vastly different tastes in hot dogs and tofu.

The book, by John Sailors, is the first in the OffCide Gamer Mystery Series.

Monday, September 5, 2011

Heather Farms, Walnut Creek