He’s tasked with sorting through the massive potential leak, making sense of the secrets revealed, and coming up with a method of release that is credible, will attract notice and won’t be linked back to him. Frenemy Masha has given him some confidential information as insurance to release should anything happen to her-which it does. Even as Marcus works to effect change through legitimate channels, he grapples with an ethical quandary. Through a lucky encounter and thanks to his reputation as a technological guru and activist-a reputation left over from Little Brother (2008)-Marcus lands a job as webmaster for an independent politician campaigning as a reformer. Marcus Yallow is at a loss he’s dropped out of college because of finances and struggles to find employment in a terrible recession. Doctorow strikes a successful balance between agenda and story in his newest near-future, pre-dystopian thriller.
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