Little Brother
Cory Doctorow, Kirby Heyborne
Audio CD
(Listening Library (Audio), May 11, 2010)
Marcus, aka âw1n5t0n,â is only seventeen years old, but he ďŹgures he already knows how the system worksâand how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high schoolâs intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems.But his whole world changes when he and his friends ďŹnd themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his crew are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and whisked away to a secret prison, where theyâre mercilessly interrogated for days. When the DHS ďŹnally releases them, Marcus discovers that his city has become a police state, where every citizen is treated like a potential terrorist. He knows that no one will believe his story, which leaves him only one option: to take down the DHS himself.Can one teenage hacker ďŹght back against a government out of control? Maybe, but only if heâs really careful . . . and very, very smart.
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