"Shen turned to General Zhang, but spoke to everyone. 'Let me tell you what your system is, Mr. Haverford. It's a six-billion-dollar... how do you Americans say it? Oh yes: clusterfuck.'"

The superbly spun ending to the can of worms unleashed in [b:deamon|5237829|The Mother of All Windows 98 Books|Woody Leonhard|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1267360425s/5237829.jpg|266162], this title charts the uprising of the "darknet" and the governmental and military efforts to thwart the revolution. there's an almost heinlein-Like reverence for the Constitution and what it stood for, but an absolute vehemence that the powers of today no longer represent those ideals.

'Betraying America doesn't require a conspiracy'.

The action is nonstop, the characters meaningful and the ending thought-provoking and curiously satisfying.

I've never thrown my all into these end-of-the-world by technology capers - neither of the recent ones having made me stop and think (those being by [a:Cory Doctorow|12581|Cory Doctorow|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1212526024p2/12581.jpg] and [a:Nick Sagan|126810|Nick Sagan|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1272456410p2/126810.jpg]. But there's no denying that Suarez' writing is compelling and his vision terrifying, and depending on your personality you can be kept up scared, learn something from this, or both.