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Where do YOU place the line between personal privacy and collective security? This book, a 1984 for our individually-wired society, is an explosive techno-thriller that spooks with its plausibility. Virtually hot to the touch, it explores civil liberties, state surveillance, torture, cryptology, free speech; non-violent protest, and how different generations define them. Four teenaged gamers skip school to look for clues in San Francisco. While they are there, a terrorist bomb explodes on the Bay Bridge. Homeland Security (HS) sweeps in and picks up anyone who looks suspicious--and these teched -out youngsters of diverse heritage look mighty suspicious to them! The suspects are taken, along with hundreds of others, to a secret prison on the Bay and interrogated. When HS finally figures out they are just average teens, although somewhat defiant ones not quick to give up their gadget passwords, they are returned to their lives with a warning: “You will never speak of what happened here to anyone, ever. This is a matter of national security. Do you know that the death penalty still holds for treason in time of war?” Four students entered the prison, but only three came out. This book is about what those three do. Reviewed by Vivian
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