"Fans of contemporary noir-esque page-turners will race through this uniquely-voiced techno-thriller that lays bare capitalist corruption in California’s state prison system."
The Bezzle, the second book in Cory Doctorow’s Martin Hench series, sees Hench in Avalon, “a chocolate-box town on an enchanted island, twenty-two miles from the Port of Los Angeles”.
A freelance forensic accountant who was there when Silicon Valley started up, Martin bags himself 25% of percent of whatever wrong-doings he uncovers, which means he gets to spend a lot of time between jobs on Catalina Island. It’s here that he and a mate embroil themselves in a scam around overpriced fast-food hamburgers. In turn, this sees him become entangled in the dirty, dangerous world of California’s corrupt private prisons.
Told in retrospect, with occasional interjections from Marty later in life, The Bezzle is an entertaining story that makes many pertinent critiques of capitalism along the way.
| Primary Genre | Thriller and Suspense |
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