Student... teenage hacker... enemy combatant. A high-octane thriller about a teenager caught in the middle of a terrorist conspiracy.
Carl Hobbes is neither military combatant nor a terrorist -- he's a 17-year-old British computer hacker who's guilty of being just a little too curious. But the American government doesn't see it like that. After they arrest him for penetrating the security at the world's most secure financial institution -- Fort Knox -- Hobbes is given a choice: either he tells them how he did it so they can strengthen their security accordingly, or they lock him away in an American prison until he's fifty. Choosing the former, Hobbes is shipped off to an unlisted American military installation known unofficially as the Guantanamo Bay of the Arctic.
But before he can get a word in edgewise, he finds himself literally caged alongside the world's most notorious terrorists, undergoing physical and mental torture at gunpoint. It turns out that while Hobbes is not a criminal mastermind, the authorities have evidence of a conspiracy that paints a different picture. When a notorious detainee stages an uprising, Hobbes must decide whether his chances of survival are greater inside the cage -- or out -- where overnight temperatures are plummeting...
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