Seventeen-year-old Marcus is very knowledgable about electronics from turning his Xbox into secure communication to the workings of arphids in credit cards and toll passes. He will use it all in an effort to stay alive and out of the hands of the Department of Homeland Security after terrorists blow up a bridge and the BART tunnel in his hometown of San Francisco. He and three of his friends are picked up on the streets by the DHS after the explosion and bundled into a truck where they are interrogated, carted off to a prison on an island in the bay, and then returned home – all but Darrell who seems to have disappeared. Read how Marcus almost single-handedly brings down the DHS with his electronic tricks using the Xbox, wifinders, arphids, networking, and game playing.
At times the technology was almost overwhelming along with Doctorow’s interpretation of the Constitution and civil rights. Oh, by the way, the DHS are not the first to restrict civil rights during a time of crisis. Abraham Lincoln did it during the Civil War!
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