LoveReading Says
Red Team Blues, Cory Doctorow’s acclaimed first Martin Hench novel, is a sensational sci-fi techno-thriller that transcends genres to present a crisply-voiced, finely-plotted story of cyberworld deception, crypto corruption, money-laundering mayhem and dirty drug cartel dealings.
At 67, Martin’s hugely successful career as a forensic accountant stems back to the founding of Silicon Valley. As a result, he knows everything there is to know about the folks who hide money, the folks who want to find it, and the kinds of measures both sets of folks take to achieve their respective goals.
For sure, Martin’s the kind of unique character you won’t have previously encountered on the page, or in real life, for that matter. A single guy who lives in a fully-furnished tour bus that used to belong to a rock star, Martin has always played an attacking role on the red team. But now, on a mission to find the key that’ll unlock a fortune in crypto currency, he finds himself forced to play on the blue team in defence: “when you’re on the blue team, you’ve got to be perfect, and the red team… merely has to find a single mistake”.
Terse and tense, Red Team Blues is a noir-ish page-turner, but not quite as you know them — it’s a super-succinct, super-thrilling ride of a read set in the moneyed microclimate of Silicon Valley.
Joanne Owen
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Red Team Blues Synopsis
2024 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST, BEST SF NOVEL
Money-laundering, cyber-knavery and shell-company chicanery: Marty Hench is an expert in them all. He's Silicon Valley's most accomplished forensic accountant and well versed in the devious ways of Fortune 500s, divorcing oligarchs, and international drug cartels alike (and there's more crossover than you might imagine).
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In cyber-security, RED TEAM plays attack. BLUE TEAM plays defence.
Marty Hench's career in tech is almost as old as Silicon Valley. He's the most accomplished forensic accountant in town, an expert on the international money-laundering and shell-company chicanery used by Fortune 500s, divorcing oligarchs, and international drug cartels alike (there's more crossover than you might imagine).
Marty was born to play attack. If there's a way to get under the walls and bring the castle down, he's the one to do it. There's no better financial Red Teamer in the Valley.
Now he's on the trail of a stolen key, one that unlocks an illicit backdoor to billions in crypto. More than reputation and fortune is on the line - Marty's adversaries are implacable criminal sadists who will spill oceans of blood to get what they want.
Finding the stolen key is going to be the least of Marty's problems: now he has to save his skin. To do that, he'll have to play defence. And Marty hates playing the Blue Team.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781804547779 |
| Publication date: |
4th January 2024 |
| Author: |
Cory Doctorow |
| Publisher: |
Head of Zeus an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
212 pages |
| Series: |
Red Team |
| Primary Genre |
Thriller and Suspense
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