He's made some pretty powerful people happy in his time, and he's been paid pretty well. He's not famous, except to the people who matter.
Because he was there at all the beginnings. He also knows the Valley like the back of his hand, all the secret histories of charismatic company founders and Sand Hill Road VCs. He's as comfortable with social media as people a quarter his age, and he's 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 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. Martin is a - contain your excitement - self-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 likes intelligent women, and they like him back often enough. He knows his way around good food and fine drink.
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. Martin Hench is 67 years old, single, and successful in a career stretching back to the beginnings of Silicon Valley. (Feb.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. Agent: Russell Galen, Scovil Galen Ghosh Literary Agency. Fans of Little Brother and the author’s other stories of technophiliac hacktivism ought to love this book.
As always, Doctorow fills his novel with cutting-edge technology, didactic progressive messages, strong and somewhat snarky characters, and discursions that reflect his passions (a Wil Wheaton cameo? instructions on cold brewing coffee? why not?). Returning to San Francisco, Marcus finds his dream job working for an honest politician and must decide whether to make public the explosive data, while dodging Johnstone and her goons.
Immediately thereafter, she is kidnapped by Carrie Johnstone, the über-competent mercenary who is determined to reacquire the data stick and protect her clients. While attending the spectacular Burning Man festival, Marcus and his girlfriend run into Masha, a secret agent he met three years earlier she hands him a data stick filled with governmental and corporate dirty secrets, telling him to release it if she disappears. In this rousing sequel to Little Brother, Marcus has gone to college, dropped out, and is looking for a job-no easy task in this near-future America’s worsening recession.
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