Brian Falkner — Brainjack
WALKER BOOKS AND SUBSIDIARIES 2009 Paperback, 438pp. Sam, a teenage computer genius, takes up an invitation to join a secret online convention for the best hackers in the world. The location for the convention? The White House. But Sam finds out that it is really a challenge to find expert hackers to protect the country. Sam is thrown into a world of international high-risk security and double crossing traitors where he must protect the world from a metasystem, connected to every computer terminal satellite and secuitry camera, that seeks to erase the human race. (ISBN: 9781921150951). Good.