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“In this fast-paced thriller, our hero Martin Hench must outwit ruthless killers trying to hack a crypto-currency jackpot. Along the way, Cory Doctorow shows us both the glamour and the underside of the Bay Area and the world of technology. Highly recommended. ”
— Mike • A Great Good Place for Books
New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's Red Team Blues is a grabby next-Tuesday thriller about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken you to how the world really works.
Martin Hench is 67 years old, single, and successful in a career stretching back to the beginnings of Silicon Valley. He lives and roams California in a very comfortable fully-furnished touring bus, The Unsalted Hash, that he bought years ago from a fading rock star. He knows his way around good food and fine drink. He likes intelligent women, and they like him back often enough.
Martin is aācontain your excitementāself-employed forensic accountant, a veteran of the long guerilla war between people who want to hide money, and people who want to find it. He knows computer hardware and software alike, including the ins and outs of high-end databases and the kinds of spreadsheets that are designed to conceal rather than reveal. Heās as comfortable with social media as people a quarter his age, and heās a world-level expert on the kind of international money-laundering and shell-company chicanery used by Fortune 500 companies, mid-divorce billionaires, and international drug gangs alike. He also knows the Valley like the back of his hand, all the secret histories of charismatic company founders and Sand Hill Road VCs. Because he was there at all the beginnings. Heās not famous, except to the people who matter. Heās made some pretty powerful people happy in his time, and heās been paid pretty well. Itās been a good life.
Now heās been roped into a job thatās more dangerous than anything heās ever agreed to beforeāand it will take every ounce of his skill to get out alive.
Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, and journalist. His latest book RED TEAM BLUES, a technothriller about finance crime; his latest nonfiction book is CHOKEPOINT CAPITALISM (with Rebecca Giblin), about creative labor markets and monopoly. He is the author of the international young adult LITTLE BROTHER series. He is also the author HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM, nonfiction about conspiracies and monopolies; and of RADICALIZED and WALKAWAY, science fiction for adults, a YA graphic novel called IN REAL LIFE; and other young adult novels like PIRATE CINEMA. His first picture book was POESY THE MONSTER SLAYER (Aug 2020). His next novel is THE LOST CAUSE (November 2023). His next nonfiction book is THE INTERNET CON (September 2023), a nonfiction book from Verso about monopoly and radical interoperability. He maintains a daily blog at Pluralistic.net. He works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is a MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate, is a Visiting Professor of Computer Science at Open University, a Visiting Professor of Practice at the University of North Carolinaās School of Library and Information Science and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in Los Angeles. In 2020, he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. In 2022, he earned the Sir Arthur Clarke Imagination in Service to Society Awardee for lifetime achievement.