Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow

Truth be told, I also didn’t want to contemplate the possibility that, at the age of sixty-seven, the new work might stop coming in. I’d done a job that turned out better than I’d expected-well enough that I was set for the year if I lived carefully. Why Menlo Park? It had both a triple-Michelin-star place and a dear old friend both within spitting distance of the Walmart parking lot, where I could park the Unsalted Hash, leaving me free to drink as much as I cared to and still be able to One evening, I got a wild hair and drove all night from San Diego to Menlo Park. If you enjoy my stories, articles and podcasts and want to know how to show your gratitude, please consider backing this kickstarter by pre-ordering an audiobook, ebook, and/or hardcover. I’m currently kickstarting a real audiobook of this one, and I’m going into the studio with Wil Wheaton on Monday. Recovering the keys turns out to be the easy part: the hard part is surviving the three-way war that is ignited in their wake, between Azerbaijani money-launderers, Mexican narcos, and crooked three-letter agencies. Marty’s ready to retire, but an old friend pulls him in for one last job, an offer he can’t refuse: recovering the stolen keys to a hidden backdoor in a cryptocurrency system that are worth more than a billion dollars. This week on my podcast, I read a selection from my next novel, Red Team Blues, an anti-finance finance thriller about Marty Hench, a 67 year old hard-charging forensic accountant who’s seen every finance scam that Silicon Valley has come up with over the previous 40 years. Ma/ Cory Doctorow / Articles, News, Podcast, Red Team Blues London: Jun 5, 7:15PM, British Library (with Baroness Martha Lane Fox)īerlin: Jun 7, Re:publica keynote (with Rebecca Giblin) London: Jun 1, 2PM, UCL Peter Kirstein Lecture Manchester: May 31, 6:30PM, Waterstones (with Ian Forrester) Nottingham: May 30, 6:30PM, Waterstones (with Christian Reilly) Oxford: May 29, 7PM, Blackwell’s (with Tim Harford) Toronto: May 23, 8PM, WEPFest (with with The Rheostatics’ Dave Bidini, Citizen Lab’s Ron Deibert, and the whistleblower Nancy Olivieri)

Gaithersburg, May 20, 3:15PM, Gaithersburg Book FestivalĭC, May 22, Public Knowledge Emerging Tech Conference (keynote) Vancouver: May 10, 6:30PM, Heritage Hall (with Sean Cranbury)Ĭalgary, May 11, 7PM, Wordfest (with Peter Hemminger) Vancouver: May 10, 9:50AM, Open Source Summit Mountain View: May 5, 7PM, Books, Inc (with Mitch Kapor)īerkeley: May 6/7, Bay Area Book Fair (with Glynn Washington and Wendy Liu) PDX/Cedar Hills: May 2, 7PM, Powell’s (with Andy Baio)

San Francisco: Apr 30, 2PM, San Francisco Public Library (with Annalee Newitz) The Red Team Blues tour: Burbank, SF, PDX, Berkeley, YVR, Calgary, Gaithersburg, DC, Toronto, Hay, Oxford, Nottingham, Manchester, London, Edinburgh, Berlin

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow