"Little Brother".

i really didn't know what to expect in this book when I read it, but a lot of contemporary and important issues were covered in the course of this book. You follow a seventeen year old boy named Marcus Yallow and his story begins with him being caught be the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) after a terrorist attack in San Francisco. Honestly, he was at the wrong place at the wrong time. So after he was cruelly interrogated by the DHS, Marcus sets out to seek justice for the DHS's wrong doing. You're probably thinking, how the hell can one boy take down the whole DHS? well, that's the other thing, he's a hard-core gamer and hacker. It gets the point in the novel where the DHS takes surveillance over everything - what you do in school, what activities you're participating, basically to the point where any American citizen is borderlining the road of a terrorist organization. 

now, to the more interesting part of the book, Marcus fights for what he believes in, in accordance to the American constitution. It's controversial in a sense that makes you fear your own national government. The book asks the readers many questions like what would you do if your government policed everything and accused you of everything you've ever done and do without giving you real reason, let alone a choice to prove yourself. Well, there are places that are already like that but to the point where the government suspects its own citizens and strips them away of all their liberties and freedom. That's a revolution for any modernised country. 

anyway, there's a fair amount of nerd language, where the book explains some of the most complex ideas about how to program and hack things on the internet. I learnt a lot of things like how people go to such lengths in online gaming, where people are out there making physical contact with another to complete a top secret mission.

this novel is actually really good coz when I finished reading it, feeling obscurely satisfied. I like how the book made me at times, doubt the main character in what he was fighting for. Pick it up and give it a read.

P.S. half of the reason why I grabbed this book off the shelf is coz there's an Asian character who's name is Van.