Picks and Shovels by Cory Doctorow

Picks and Shovels by Cory DoctorowTHE YEAR IS 1986. THE CITY IS SAN FRANCISCO. Here, Martin Hench will reinvent the forensic accountant for the digital age what a bounty hunter is to people, he will be to tech money but for now hes 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. When Martin is hired by a Silicon Valley startup, Fidelity Computing, to investigate a group

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