Thread by @doctorow

My next novel is *Red Team Blues*, a noir technothriller/heist novel about Marty Hench, a forensic accountant who is the most fearsome financial sleuth in Silicon Valley history.

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Marty has spent 40 years unwinding tech's biggest, sleaziest scams, and now he's ready to retire - but first he has to do one more job: 3/

My publisher, @torbooks, has just published the first sneak-peek at *Red Team Blues*, an exclusive excerpt from Chapter 4, where Marty explains to his old friend Raza why he's doing this job, and she helps him figure out how to crack it:

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I haven't been this excited about a book since 2006, when #LittleBrother battered its way out of my fingertips in eight weeks flat (the first draft of *Red Team Blues* took only *six* weeks!). 5/

Tor agreed - they bought this book and two prequels: *The Bezzle* (about private prison tech) and *Picks and Shovels* (about affinity scams in the heroic age of the PC). 6/

The early reviews have been spectacular: @ALA_Booklist got there first, calling it "Another winner from an sf wizard who has always proved himself adept at blending genres for both adults and teens." 7/

Next was @LibraryJournal, who wrote, "This absorbing and ruthless cyberpunk thriller from Doctorow tackles modern concerns involving cryptocurrency, security, and the daunting omnipotence of technology."

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Then came @PublishersWkly, with "Doctorow brings a thoroughness and honesty to a subject masked by techno-babble and emotional hype ('all that blockchain for good shit') to deliver a clear-eyed warning about how crypto is used and what it costs." 9/

I can't wait for this one to drop in April!

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