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The Bezzle de Cory Doctorow

The Bezzle

Autor Cory Doctorow
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 ian 2025

Simțiți cum nodul se strânge. Tensiunea este palpabilă, electrică, ascunsă sub straturi de cod și cifre. Notăm cu interes cum Cory Doctorow transformă contabilitatea judiciară într-un sport de contact periculos în The Bezzle. Atmosfera este una de urgență constantă; nu este doar un roman polițist, ci un atac frontal împotriva sistemelor care ascund bogăția în spatele unor ziduri digitale impenetrabile. Ne aflăm în 2006, iar Marty Hench, protagonistul pe care l-am cunoscut în Red Team Blues, se află la apogeul carierei sale de „căutător de bani”. Reținem că, de data aceasta, greșeala lui Marty este una de o magnitudine letală: a călcat pe teritoriul de joacă al celor ultra-bogați. Imaginați-vă tensiunea din Ripoff de Morgan St James, mutată într-un decor de inginerie financiară barocă și corupție în sistemul penitenciar privatizat. Dacă în Red Team Blues miza era supraviețuirea într-un Silicon Valley cinic, în The Bezzle miza devine sistemică. Autorul folosește expertiza sa în tehnologie și drepturi digitale pentru a diseca mecanismele care au facilitat colapsul financiar din 2008. Ritmul este unul alert, de tip „hard-charging”, unde fiecare tranzacție bancară poate fi o sentință la moarte. Putem afirma că Doctorow nu scrie doar ficțiune; el scrie un rechizitoriu social învelit în cel mai bun stil de roman polițist „pulp”, unde eroul nu poartă pistol, ci un tabel Excel capabil să dărâme imperii.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781250865885
ISBN-10: 1250865883
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 136 x 209 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Tor Publishing Group

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care vor să înțeleagă „putregaiul financiar” din spatele marilor corporații fără a renunța la plăcerea unui thriller de calitate. Câștigați o perspectivă unică asupra modului în care banii sunt ascunși la cel mai înalt nivel. Este lectura perfectă pentru fanii Red Team Blues și pentru oricine este fascinat de intersecția dintre tehnologie, lăcomie și justiție.

Despre autor

Cory Doctorow este un scriitor de science-fiction, activist și jurnalist canadiano-britanic, cunoscut pentru pozițiile sale ferme privind liberalizarea legilor drepturilor de autor. Fost co-editor al celebrului blog Boing Boing, Doctorow a explorat constant în opera sa teme precum managementul drepturilor digitale și economia post-deficit. Prin seria Red Team, el aduce aceste preocupări în sfera romanului polițist tehnologic. Recunoașterea sa internațională include includerea în Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame în 2020, confirmându-i statutul de voce critică esențială în literatura contemporană despre impactul tehnologiei asupra societății.

Descriere

Descriere de la o altă ediție sau format:
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).

Cory Doctorow's hard-charging, read-in-one-sitting, techno take on the classic PI pulp novel.

**

It'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.

He spends his downtime holidaying on Catalina Island, where scenic, imported bison wander the bluffs and frozen, reheated fast food burgers cost $25. (Wait, what?)

When, 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.

Because 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.

Secure 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.

But now, Marty is about to ruin their fun...

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 red-hot follow up to Red Team Blues.

Recenzii

Righteously satisfying...A fascinating tale of financial skullduggery, long cons, and the delivery of ice-cold revenge
Robert Heinlein was always known...as The Man Who Knew How the World Worked. Doctorow delivers the same sense of putting yourself in the hands of a fellow who has peered behind Oz's curtain. When he fills you in lucidly about some arcane bit of economics or computer tech or social media scam, you feel, first, that you understand it completely and, second, that you can trust Doctorow's analysis and insights
[A] thoroughly enjoyable cybercrime novels where some of the laughter comes from true life. But is it science fiction? Well, it certainly sends a science-fictional message about the dangers of the internet.
'A fast-paced, voraciously readable thriller that lays bare the financial rot at the core of Silicon Valley's high-minded rhetoric of innovation.' - Roger McNamee, author of Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe

'I showed up for the high-tech ideas and stayed for the whodunit. You don't need to be a techie to love Red Team Blues - you just need to be fascinated about what the future might hold.' - A. G. Riddle, author of Lost in Time

'Well, talk about timely. In the wake of the late-2022 collapse of cryptocurrency comes this novel about a forensic accountant who's hired to work a case involving electronic theft of cryptocurrency... Doctorow's novels are always feasts for the imagination and the intellect, and this one is no exception: it's jam-packed with cutting-edge ideas about cybersecurity and crypto, and its near-future world is lovingly detailed and completely believable.' - BookList

'Cory Doctorow's fiction is a vector through which he offers incisive commentary on technology and society, and Red Team Blues is no exception. Through the eyes of a grizzled forensic accountant, we're forced to question preconceived ideas around benevolent billionaires, honorable state authorities, and impenetrable security. Red Team Blues earns its spot in the top echelon of thriller novels that give you no choice but to devour them in one sitting, but leave you thinking long after you turn the last page.'

An excellent encapsulation of Doctorow's term "enshittification"... technical storytelling at its finest. We need more writers like Cory Doctorow

Descriere scurtă

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.