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Two warrior angels. First friends, now lovers. Their future? A WILD UNKNOWN.


Picks and Shovels by Cory Doctorow

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Also by Cory Doctorow:

Picks and Shovels, February 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
The Lost Cause, September 2024
Paperback / e-Book
The Bezzle, February 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
Red Team Blues, February 2024
Paperback / e-Book
The Lost Cause, November 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
Red Team Blues, April 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
Attack Surface, October 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
Little Brother & Homeland, July 2020
Trade Size / e-Book
Radicalized, March 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
Homeland, February 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
Brave New Worlds, February 2011
Paperback
For The Win, May 2010
Hardcover
Little Brother, April 2010
Paperback
Wastelands, January 2008
Paperback

Picks and Shovels
Cory Doctorow

Martin Hench #3
Tor Books
February 2025
On Sale: February 18, 2025
400 pages
ISBN: 1250865905
EAN: 9781250865908
Kindle: B0D1P8LTRV
Hardcover / e-Book
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Thriller Techno | Mystery | Science Fiction

New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow returns to the world of Red Team Blues to bring us the origin story of Martin Hench and the most powerful new tool for crime ever invented: the personal computer.

The year is 1986. The city is San Francisco. Here, Martin Hench will invent the forensic accountant--what a bounty hunter is to people, he is to money--but for now he's an MIT dropout odd-jobbing his way around a city still reeling from the invention of a revolutionary new technology that will change everything about crime forever, one we now take completely for granted.

When Marty finds himself hired by Silicon Valley PC startup Fidelity Computing to investigate a group of disgruntled ex-employees who've founded a competitor startup, he quickly realizes he's on the wrong side. Marty ditches the greasy old guys running Fidelity Computing without a second thought, utterly infatuated with the electric atmosphere of Computing Freedom. Located in the heart of the Mission, this group of brilliant young women found themselves exhausted by the predatory business practices of Fidelity Computing and set out to beat them at their own game, making better computers and driving Fidelity Computing out of business. But this optimistic startup, fueled by young love and California-style burritos, has no idea the depth of the evil they're seeking to unroot or the risks they run.

In this company-eat-company city, Martin and his friends will be lucky to escape with their lives.

Martin Hench

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