Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Red Team Blues | 2023 | Cory Doctorow | Buy |
| 2 | The Bezzle | 2024 | Cory Doctorow | Buy |
| 3 | Picks and Shovels | 2025 | Cory Doctorow | Buy |
The Martin Hench series by Cory Doctorow features an aging forensic accountant who has spent his career following the money through Silicon Valley’s shadiest deals. Red Team Blues (2023) introduces Hench as he investigates a cryptocurrency scheme. The Bezzle (2024) looks at the prison-industrial complex, and Picks and Shovels (2025) goes back to the early days of the internet economy.
Doctorow uses Hench as a vehicle for examining how financial systems get exploited. The books read as thrillers but carry the same interest in how technology shapes power that runs through all of Doctorow’s fiction.