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subversivegrrl, June 16, 2008

I don't know whether to kiss or curse the person who lent me this book - I was up well past a reasonable bedtime and couldn't put it down. Although clearly written for a young adult audience, this story should put a chill up the back of anyone who worries about where the explosion of technological surveillance capabilities and our unwitting surrender of civil liberties will take us.

Marcus is a bright, if challenging, high school student who delights in getting around all of the monitoring systems his school has in place. But after a terrorist attack precipitates a harrowing encounter with national security interrogators, Marcus has to change tactics and avoid trouble as much as possible, while still trying to bring down the growing labyrinth of covert government surveillance and alert others to the danger. Sometimes it seems he makes his escape a little too conveniently, but in this all-too-real dystopia it's only a matter of time before his efforts to obstruct the government juggernaut put him back into jeopardy.

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