International gambling organizations! Mysterious Russian extortionists! A lone wunderkind facing overwhelming odds, and a tale stretching from Phoenix to Costa Rica, with occasional stops in Scotland Yard. It's all right here.

Of course, the locales in said places are all climate-controlled server rooms, and to the layman victory or defeat in this battle would have most easily been detected by how quickly various LEDs were blinking. But even if you only find it half as interesting as I do, it's still a pretty good read.