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Binding: HardcoverEAN: 9780765319852 ISBN: 0765319853 Label: Tor Teen Manufacturer: Tor Teen Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: April 29, 2008 Publisher: Tor Teen Reading Level: Young Adult Release Date: April 29, 2008 Studio: Tor Teen Editorial Review: Product Description: Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school’s intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems. But his whole world changes when he and his friends find 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 they’re mercilessly interrogated for days. When the DHS finally 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Buy this book. Now.This book is not only insightful, important, and educational, it's also entertaining. I got it at about 3PM and by 8PM I had finished it. I had planned for it to last me several weeks. More importantly, get copies of this book into the hands of your younger siblings, your children, your young friends, and anyone else you know who has yet to be crushed into conformity by the pressures of corporate life, family, and years of kneeling before The Man. You might just save them, and the world. Rating:  - The liberal spin will make you dizzy.What started out as an enjoyable book about a group of "hackers" took an extreme left turn. The city in which this book takes place, San Francisco, is already filled with anti-war and anti-government and it is not a far stretched idea that the events in this could only happen there. The author does a good job in portraying the student and teacher who are in favor of government, essentially not liberal; seem unintelligent, timid and unable to discuss opinions in a calm manner. ... Read More Rating: - You'll learn something...I had already downloaded and read the free ebook version of the book and found it so good, so filled with ideas (techy, political, social...) that I had to buy the dead-tree version just so I could lend it to people that would benefit from the knowledge therein. So far, all have enjoyed it. Just go on and get it, I guarantee you'll be entertained... at the very least you'll come out a little wiser Rating: - Should be required readingThere's no question that terrorists (of various stripes) pose a threat to free societies. The real question is whether the anti-terrorist measures work. This book explores how a young man and his friends run headfirst into that question. While I am one who believes that much of what we've done in the US has made us less free as a people, I would hope that those who disagree with me will have read through a book like this to test their own conclusions. (Don't get me wrong--I'm not pro-terrorist, ... Read More Rating:  - The State of the UnionA very timely, and realistic portrayal of how our civil liberties are on their death bed - a 'what if' story that predicts, believably, what would happen after another 9/11 style attack, in a manner that should strike home with its readers. Our country doesn't have a problem with torture and secret prisons, this we have learned - what comes next? Very like some of Scott Westerfeld's books, in theme, pacing and writing style. The book started out like gangbusters - a 5(6!), but the pace slowed for ... Read More |
