"Little Brother" - Cory Doctorow

"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."

Little Brother could be one of the most important books I've read all year.
This book is like a primer on free thought and the Bill of Rights. I just wish that i could be thirteen and reading this for the first time.

The thing I liked best about it it is that the book deals a lot with shades of grey. As the idea of a monolithic morality degrades and is replaced with something new, it is refreshing to read a book in which there are no real villains or heroes, just people doing what they can, with the tools they've got, with the inevitable friction those circumstances produce.

If you liked "Ender's Game" or "The Diamond Age", you'll love "Little Brother"

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