*This review is for the unabridged audiobook version. Pretentious much, Cory Doctorow? I man the book oozes pretention. The protagonist is the coolest, most justified, smart and always right person ever. The bad guys are one dimensional and are all uniform carbon copies of each other. They are uncool, unjustified in any action, and always wrong and stupid. Wait the bad guys are all racist, homophobic, and republican. Wait, the bad guys aren't republican, Republicans are the bad guys. There is a difference there and Doctorow preaches it to you.
I actually liked the book at the beginning. It was interesting if a little unplausible. The premise is that a bomb blows up the Bay Bridge and Bart tunnel. Four friends, cutting class to play an ARG (alternate reality game) are caught in the thick of it and get hauled in by Homeland Security as suspects. After their secret detention and humiliation, all the kids cooperate and are released except one that had been stabbed in the chaos after the explosion. The protagonist vows revenge for his humiliation.
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