02849cam a2200457 i 4500 1171785125 TxAuBib 20240319120000.0 230413s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781250865878 1250865875 (OCoLC)1375541822 TxAuBib rda Doctorow, Cory, author. The bezzle / Cory Doctorow. First edition. New York, N.Y. : Tor Publishing Group, [2024] ©2024. 230 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Martin Hench novels ; bk. 2 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 twenty-five dollars. 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. 20240319. California Department of Corrections Fiction. Accountants Fiction. Forensic accounting Fiction. International finance Fiction. Money laundering Fiction. Criminals Fiction. Cryptocurrencies Fiction. Hackers Fiction. Older men Fiction. Prisons Fiction. Santa Catalina Island (Calif) Fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.) Martin Hench novels ; bk. 2. TXKIP