Here is a short, no-spoiler review of The Bezzle, Cory Doctorow's second novel in the Martin Hench series.
The Bezzle is a story about a younger Marty, taking jobs that suit him and taking glamorous time off in-between. The shrewd, forensic accountant we met in Red Team Blues is familiar, principled, and sympathetic. But those latter traits end up costing him in this novel, as they aren't always compatible with the excessively well-off clientele he mixes it up with.
This book starts by telling an entertaining, contemporarily folky story about Catalina Island, its rich tourists, and one particular enterprising local (who I quickly came to love). But before you see it coming, Doctorow whiplashes the reader with a sobering dose of cut-throat plutocratic revenge that reveals what can happen when someone is placed, like a chess piece, on the wrong side of law enforcement. Cap it off with private money running the now-relevant-to-the-story prison system, and you get a first person account of some real sh*t.
As usual, Cory Doctorow tells a damn good story, mixing in corruption that is likely going on in the real world today. If you liked Martin Hench in the first book, you're going to come away with more reasons to dig him in this one. If you haven't met Marty yet, feel free to start with this book or Red Team Blues. In my opinion, the order doesn't matter.
I read about half of The Bezzle hardcover, and listened to Wil Wheaton recite the other half of it via the audio book. In both formats, it was a serious page turner!