Binding: Hardcover
Description: 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.
Title: The Bezzle A Martin Hench Novel
Author(s): Doctorow Cory
Publisher: Tor Publishing Group
Barcode: 9781250865878
Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/20/2024
Series: The Martin Hench Novels
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction