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 tyco
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Head of Zeus
ISBN: 9781804547816
Idioma: Inglés
Número de páginas: 256
Tiempo de lectura:
5h 15m
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 02/01/2025
Año de edición: 2025
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Cory Doctorow
Novelista canadiense de ciencia ficción, periodista y activista tecnológico. Colabora con numerosas revistas, sitios web y periódicos. Es asesor especial de la Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), un grupo de libertades civiles sin ánimo de lucro que defiende la libertad en la legislación, la política, las normas y los tratados sobre tecnología. Sus novelas han sido traducidas a decenas de idiomas. Es doctor honoris causa en informática por la Open University (Reino Unido). En 2020 ingresó en el Salón de la Fama de la Ciencia Ficción y la Fantasía de Canadá. Ha ganado los premios Locus, Prometheus, Copper Cylinder, White Pine y Sunburst, y ha sido nominado a los premios Hugo,