Little Brother

By Cory Doctorow

Book #1 in the Little Brother series

A teen hacker battles a surveillance state after a terrorist attack changes everything.

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382 pages· 106,188 words· Est. 10 hour read

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Bookroo's summary

Seventeen-year-old Marcus, a savvy hacker, finds his life upended after a terrorist attack in San Francisco. Wrongly detained by Homeland Security, he returns to a city transformed into a police state. With citizens treated as suspects, Marcus must decide if he can challenge the oppressive system. Can he outsmart the surveillance and reclaim freedom, or will he be silenced? Dive into a gripping tale of rebellion and resilience where every move is watched, and every choice could be his last.

From the publisher

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.

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