Homeland Audiobook (Free)

In Cory Doctorow’s wildly successful novel Little Sibling, young Marcus Yallow was arbitrarilydetained and brutalized by the federal government in the wake of the terrorist attack onSan Francisco-an experience that led him to become a leader of the wholemovement of technologically clued-in teenagers, fighting back against thetyrannical security state.

A few years later, California’s economy collapses, butMarcus’ hacktivist past lands him a job as webmaster for the crusading politicianwho promises reform..READING MORE about Homeland Soon his previous nemesis Masha emerges through the politicalunderground to present him with a thumb drive containing a WikiLeaks-stylecable dump of hard evidence of corporate and governmental perfidy. It’sincendiary stuff-and if Masha goes missing, Marcus is meant to release it tothe world. Then Marcus views Masha getting kidnapped with the same federal government agentswho detained and tortured Marcus years earlier.

Marcus can drip the archive Masha gave him-but he can’tadmit to getting the leaker because which will cost his employer the election.He’s encircled by friends who keep in mind what he do a few years ago and regardhim as a hacker hero. He can’t also attend a demo without beingdragged onstage and handed a mike. He’s not at all sure that just dumping thearchive onto the Internet, before he’s been through its millions of phrases, isthe right move to make.

Meanwhile, folks are beginning to shadow him, people wholook like they’re utilized to inflicting pain until they get the answers they want.

Fast moving, passionate, and as current simply because in a few days, Homelandis just the identical of Small Brother-a paean to activism, tocourage, to the drive to make the world a better place.