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. Picks and Shovels is a high-tech crime thriller about the “weird era of PCs” in the early 1980s, when Reaganomics, the tech industry, multilevel marketing, and the AIDS crisis all converged in San Francisco. Order your signed, personalized copies of Picks and Shovels, The Bezzle, and Red Team Blues from Secret Headquarters in LA. Cory will sign and personalize them on Feb 18 and they'll go into the mail the same day. Here is the link: https://thesecretheadquarters.bigcartel.com/product/cory-doctorow-s-martin-hench-novels-signed-preorder Subscribe to the channel and hit the like button! Subscribe to Jacobin in print for just $10: https://jacobin.com/subscribe/?code=JACOBINYT