I have been following Cory Doctrow since his days at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and when he was the Editor of Boing Boing. I stopped following him for a long time in between. I found him again when I followed him on Tumblr.
I read a really wonderful blog post by him called The true post-cyberpunk hero is a noir forensic accountant. This post on Tumblr led me to buy the first Martin Hench novel, Red Team Blues.
I love reading whodunnits and I liked reading this forensic whodunnit. The descriptions are crisp and just right in places. In other places, I had to work a lot to not jump to the paragraph where the action is. I enjoyed reading the technical explanations that he offers in the novel. But there are two paragraphs that I totally enjoyed reading. I absolutely enjoyed reading the technical explanations for the red and blue teams and on cyber security.
One, where he goes to buy a car and expresses his hatred for Elon Musk. He says:
From there, I maneuvered to this year’s car listings, checking the box for all- electric and unchecking the box for Teslas. I just don’t like the man. I’ve spent enough years around enough bullshitters that I can spot them a mile away. In his case, I could spot him from orbit, using one of his overpromised, underdelivered satellites.
Another, where he talks about technical writing:
So she became the company’s first tech writer, then its first documentation specialist, then, as her docs and organization of support requests produced solid sales leads and high customer satisfaction, she got a team.
After reading this book, I think I have turned back to reading fiction again.