A multiple award winner is now in paperback.
He knows that no one will believe his story, which leaves him only one option: to take down the DHS himself..
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.
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.
But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco.
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.
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.
He knows that no one will believe his story, which leaves him only one option: to take down the DHS himself.
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.
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.
But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco.
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.
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.
A novel that is at once an entertaining thriller, a thoughtful polemic, and a practical handbook of digital age self-defense.--The New York Times, Notable Children\'s Book of 2008.
A multiple award winner is now in paperback
