I am not even going to pretend that I understood and followed all the technical cyber jargon in Brian Falkner's latest young adult novel Brainjack. But that didn't stop me turning the pages as I tried to unravel the mysterious world of teenage hackers, cybercrime and espionage. In fact, the author puts a proviso in the back of the book that this is not a manual for hackers with many of the techniques being deliberately fictionalised.The story is set in the near future and follows Sam, a young computer genius who excels at hacking into places where he shouldn't be, like America's telecommunication giant and the White House. When he is finally rumbled, he finds he is even deeper in a very dangerous world. What starts off as a luxury world doing something he loves, turns into life on the run in a nucleur fall out area (the hole in the ground formerly known as Las Vegas).
This is a fast paced and exciting novel which will have plenty of appeal (we tested it on the tennage son of one of our librarians and it got the thumbs up from him). Definitely a recommended read.
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