Picks and Shovels

"This smart and pacey “historical techno-thriller” – the third in a series by the Anglo-Canadian writer Cory Doctorow – transports readers to the dawn of the PC era. It’s the mid-1980s in San Francisco and a young MIT dropout turned freelance tech accountant, Martin Hench, finds himself working, somewhat improbably, for a computer manufacturing company run by a Mormon bishop, a Catholic priest and an Orthodox rabbi. When it turns out to be a huge scam aimed at fleecing religious groups, Hench joins a competitor startup run by a trio of defiant women. Hench and his new colleagues risk their lives in a fight to make the PC revolution more open source."