Little brother is a book about fighting back against the government. It is an awesome book first off. Early in the book San Francisco is hit by the largest terrorist attack in history. A bomb blows up the bay bridge. Marcus, a seventeen year old hacker and his friends are near by. When one of Marcus’s friend get stabbed he flags down help but instead gets taken away for integration even though the only thing he did wrong was be in the wrong place at the wrong time. After he gets released He is told never to speak of this to anyone again and that he is being watched. Well Marcus declares war on the department of homeland security who, since the attack have put up cameras everywhere, are tracking people movement using credit cards and their train tickets and stopping anyone with “an irregular travel pattern”. Well it is amazing written and illustrates very well what has happened and what could quite possible happen in the war on terror. Well one of the reasons that I decided to post this is because the author has put up for download free digital copies of the book.

You can download it here.
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And here is a summery taken from [link]

What’s Little Brother about?
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.

Read a few pages and see if you like it, and I think that you will.