Little Brother

Little Brother Cory Doctorow

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<p>The ultimate tale of teen rebellion - one seventeen-year-old against the surveillance state.</p> <br> <br> <p>Big Brother is watching you. Who's watching back?</p> <p>Marcus 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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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 no one will believe his story, which leaves him only one option: to take down the DHS himself.</p>

business Harper Voyager
menu_book N/A
calendar_today 2008
qr_code_2 9780007288427
language EN
description 374 pages
Little Brother

Little Brother Cory Doctorow

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<p>The ultimate tale of teen rebellion - one seventeen-year-old against the surveillance state.</p> <br> <br> <p>Big Brother is watching you. Who's watching back?</p> <p>Marcus 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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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 no one will believe his story, which leaves him only one option: to take down the DHS himself.</p>

business Harper Voyager
menu_book N/A
calendar_today 2008
qr_code_2 9780007288427
language EN
description 374 pages