{"product_id":"the-bezzle-by-cory-doctorow-9781804547816","title":"The Bezzle","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoney-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).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCory Doctorow's hard-charging, read-in-one-sitting, techno take on the classic PI pulp novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt's 2006, and Marty Hench is at the top of his game as a self-employed forensic accountant, a veteran of the long guerrilla war between the people who want to hide money and the people who want to find it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe spends his downtime holidaying on Catalina Island, where scenic, imported bison wander the bluffs and frozen, reheated fast food burgers cost £25. (Wait, what?)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen, during one vacation, Marty disrupts a seemingly innocuous scheme, he has no idea he’s kicked off a chain of events that will overtake the next decade of his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBecause he's made his most dangerous mistake yet. He's trespassed into the playgrounds of the ultra-wealthy and identified their latest target: California’s Department of Corrections, who manage the state's prison system.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSecure in the knowledge that they’re living behind far too many firewalls to be identified, the tycoons have hundreds of thousands of prisoners at their mercy, and the potential of millions of pounds to make off them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut now, Marty is about to ruin their fun...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA seething rebuke of the privatised prison system that delves deeply into the arcane and baroque financial chicanery involved in the 2008 financial crash, \u003ci\u003eThe Bezzle\u003c\/i\u003e is a red-hot follow up to Red Team Blues.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47432814625004,"sku":"9781804547816","price":24.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781804547816.jpg?v=1774766383","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-bezzle-by-cory-doctorow-9781804547816","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}