Just like Red Team Blues, ‘The Bezzle‘ is a book that I could have easily devoured in one sitting – if I didn’t have a job. As things were, I got through it in a matter of days.

Confession – I parked ‘The Lost Cause‘ so I could get back to Marty’s adventures. It was so worth it, another romp through the stuff that Cory writes about on his Pluralistic blog, with characters and scene setting to bring it to life. The prison industrial complex, private equity and tax audits – that may not sound like material for a gripping thriller; but it was, as the cons and corruption, the human greed behind that, and the frailty it brings all provide ample fodder for some great storytelling.

(Not for the first time) I get the feeling that if Cory had picked the spreadsheet over the word processor, he might have been a forensic accountant like Marty Hench.

It was gratifying to see my name in the acknowledgements along with other reviewers of Red Team Blues, and I can’t wait for the next installment Picks and Shovels.