Little Brother
- First published
- 2008
- Reading level
- Easy
- Price
- Free
About the book
"Little Brother" by Cory Doctorow is a novel published in 2008. When a terrorist attack strikes San Francisco, four teenagers find themselves detained by the Department of Homeland Security. Released but under surveillance, seventeen-year-old hacker Marcus Yallow refuses to accept the government's erosion of civil liberties. He creates Xnet, a secret network to fight back against the surveillance state, transforming from suspect to resistance leader in a battle over freedom and security.
- San Francisco (Calif.)
- United States. Dept. of Homeland Security
- Terrorism
- Computer hackers
- Civil rights
- Counterculture
Updated September 2026. Public domain in the USA. Text and summary from Project Gutenberg eBook #30142. Little Brother on Wikipedia.
