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May 17, 2025

10am – 6pm

Bohrer Park


Cory Doctorow

Latest Title: Red Team Blues
Red Team Blues
Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow

New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow’s Red Team Blues is a grabby next-Tuesday thriller about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken you to how the world really works.

Martin Hench is 67 years old, single, and successful in a career stretching back to the beginnings of Silicon Valley. He lives and roams California in a very comfortable fully-furnished touring bus, The Unsalted Hash, that he bought years ago from a fading rock star. He knows his way around good food and fine drink. He likes intelligent women, and they like him back often enough.

Martin is a—contain your excitement—self-employed forensic accountant, a veteran of the long guerilla war between people who want to hide money, and people who want to find it. He knows computer hardware and software alike, including the ins and outs of high-end databases and the kinds of spreadsheets that are designed to conceal rather than reveal. He’s as comfortable with social media as people a quarter his age, and he’s a world-level expert on the kind of international money-laundering and shell-company chicanery used by Fortune 500 companies, mid-divorce billionaires, and international drug gangs alike. He also knows the Valley like the back of his hand, all the secret histories of charismatic company founders and Sand Hill Road VCs. Because he was there at all the beginnings. He’s not famous, except to the people who matter. He’s made some pretty powerful people happy in his time, and he’s been paid pretty well. It’s been a good life.

Now he’s been roped into a job that’s more dangerous than anything he’s ever agreed to before—and it will take every ounce of his skill to get out alive.

About Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow is a regular contributor to the Guardian, Locus and many other publications. He is a special consultant to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an MIT Media Lab Research Associate and a visiting professor of Computer Science at the Open University. His award-winning novel, “Little Brother,” and its sequel, “Homeland,” were New York Times best-sellers. His novella collection, “Radicalized,” was a CBC Best Fiction of 2019 selection. Born and raised in Canada, he lives in Los Angeles. He will be presenting “Red Team Blues.”

Twitter: @doctorow

 

Author Schedule:

Venue(s):

Dashiell Hammett Pavilion

Presentation Start Time:

3:15 pm

Presentation End Time:

4:05 pm

Signing Time:

4:15 pm

Presentation Authors:

Author Website:

https://craphound.com/