Money-laundering cyber-knavery and shell-company chicanery: Marty Hench is an expert in them
all. He's Silicon Valley's most accomplished forensic accountant and well versed in the devious
ways of Fortune 500s divorcing oligarchs and international drug cartels alike (and there's
more crossover than you might imagine). Cory Doctorow's hard-charging read-in-one-sitting
techno take on the classic PI pulp novel. ** It's 2006 and Marty Hench is at the top of his
game as a self-employed forensic accountant a veteran of the long guerrilla war between the
people who want to hide money and the people who want to find it. He spends his downtime
holidaying on Catalina Island where scenic imported bison wander the bluffs and frozen
reheated fast food burgers cost $25. (Wait what?) When during one vacation Marty disrupts a
seemingly innocuous scheme he has no idea he's kicked off a chain of events that will overtake
the next decade of his life. Because he's made his most dangerous mistake yet. He's trespassed
into the playgrounds of the ultra-wealthy and identified their latest target: California's
Department of Corrections who manage the state's prison system. Secure in the knowledge that
they're living behind far too many firewalls to be identified the tycoons have hundreds of
thousands of prisoners at their mercy and the potential of millions of pounds to make off
them. But now Marty is about to ruin their fun... A seething rebuke of the privatized prison
system that delves deeply into the arcane and baroque financial chicanery involved in the 2008
financial crash The Bezzle is a red-hot follow up to Red Team Blues.
