Subj : book: Picks and Shovels
To   : August Abolins
From : Ed Vance
Date : Thu Mar 27 2025 12:18:10


> "New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow returns to the  
> world of Red Team Blues to bring us the origin story of Martin  
> Hench and the most powerful new tool for crime ever invented:  
> the personal computer.

> "The year is 1986. The city is San Francisco. Here, Martin Hench will invent
> the forensic accountant--what a bounty hunter is to people, he is to
> money--but for now he's an MIT dropout odd-jobbing his way around a city
> still reeling from the invention of a revolutionary new technology that will
> change everything about crime forever, one we now take completely for
> granted.

> "When Marty finds himself hired by Silicon Valley PC startup Fidelity
> Computing to investigate a group of disgruntled ex-employees who've founded a
> competitor startup, he quickly realizes he's on the wrong side. Marty ditches
> the greasy old guys running Fidelity Computing without a second thought,
> utterly infatuated with the electric atmosphere of Computing Freedom. Located
> in the heart of the Mission, this group of brilliant young women found
> themselves exhausted by the predatory business practices of Fidelity
> Computing and set out to beat them at their own game, making better computers
> and driving Fidelity Computing out of business. But this optimistic startup,
> fueled by young love and California-style burritos, has no idea the depth of
> the evil they're seeking to unroot or the risks they run.

> "In this company-eat-company city, Martin and his friends will be lucky to
> escape with their lives.

>  Picks and Shovels: A Martin Hench Novel | Hardcover

> Cory Doctorow

> Martin Hench Novels (series)

> Tor/Forge | Tor Books

> Fiction / Science Fiction - Hard Science Fiction / Thrillers - Technological
> / Science Fiction - Crime & Mystery

> Published Feb 18, 2025

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Thanks for the review Aug.
Reading this made me want to read more about Martin Hench and the Filedilitt
Computing Company.

Now going to DuckDuckGo...
Ed
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