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New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's The Bezzle is a high stakes thriller where the lives of the hundreds of thousands of inmates in California's prisons are traded like stock shares. The year is 2006. Martin Hench is at the top of his game as a self-employed forensic accountant, a veteran of the long guerrilla war between people who want to hide money, and people who want to find it. He spends his downtime on Catalina Island, where scenic, imported bison wander the bluffs and frozen, reheated fast food burgers cost 25$. Wait, what? When Marty disrupts a seemingly innocuous scheme during a vacation on Catalina Island, he has no idea he's kicked off a chain of events that will overtake the next decade of his life. Martin has made his most dangerous mistake yet: trespassed into the playgrounds of the ultra-wealthy and spoiled their fun. To them, money is a tool, a game, and a way to keep score, and they've found their newest mark--California's Department of Corrections. Secure in the knowledge that they're living behind far too many firewalls of shell companies and investors ever to be identified, they are interested not in the lives they ruin, but only in how much money they can extract from the government and the hundreds of thousands of prisoners they have at their mercy. 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 sizzling follow-up to Red Team Blues.

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"""Cory Doctorow is one of our most important science fiction authors."" --Kim Stanley Robinson ""Cory Doctorow doesn't just write about the future--I think he lives there!"" --Kelly Link ""Another winner from an sf wizard."" --Booklist on Red Team Blues ""Absorbing and ruthless."" --Library Journal on Red Team Blues ""A cleareyed warning...With unconventional gumshoe Martin at the helm, fans can expect good things from the series to come."" --Publishers Weekly on Red Team Blues"

"""Righteously satisfying...A fascinating tale of financial skullduggery, long cons, and the delivery of ice-cold revenge."" - Booklist on The Bezzle ""Cory Doctorow is one of our most important science fiction authors."" --Kim Stanley Robinson ""Cory Doctorow doesn't just write about the future--I think he lives there!"" --Kelly Link ""Another winner from an sf wizard."" --Booklist on Red Team Blues ""Absorbing and ruthless."" --Library Journal on Red Team Blues ""A cleareyed warning...With unconventional gumshoe Martin at the helm, fans can expect good things from the series to come."" --Publishers Weekly on Red Team Blues"

"""Righteously satisfying...A fascinating tale of financial skullduggery, long cons, and the delivery of ice-cold revenge."" - Booklist on The Bezzle ""It's a novel of issues, presented as they should be, detail by devastating detail. The issues and ideas are this novel's warp, the specificity and sometimes surprising emotional truths its weft."" -- Maria Farrell on The Bezzle ""Cory Doctorow is one of our most important science fiction authors."" --Kim Stanley Robinson ""Cory Doctorow doesn't just write about the future--I think he lives there!"" --Kelly Link ""Another winner from an sf wizard."" --Booklist on Red Team Blues ""Absorbing and ruthless."" --Library Journal on Red Team Blues ""A cleareyed warning...With unconventional gumshoe Martin at the helm, fans can expect good things from the series to come."" --Publishers Weekly on Red Team Blues"

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Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist and journalist. He is the author of many books, including THE LOST CAUSE, a solarpunk science fiction novel of hope amidst the climate emergency. His nonfiction book THE INTERNET CON: HOW TO SEIZE THE MEANS OF COMPUTATION is a Big Tech disassembly manual. Other recent books include RED TEAM BLUES, a science fiction crime thriller; CHOKEPOINT CAPITALISM, nonfiction about monopoly and creative labor markets; the LITTLE BROTHER series for young adults; IN REAL LIFE, a graphic novel; and the picture book POESY THE MONSTER SLAYER. In 2020, he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.

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