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San Francisco, The Near Future: Seventeen year old Marcus Yarrow lives a privileged middle-class existence with his parents in an affluent suburb of the city by the bay. The kind of highly intelligent kid who can run rings around the hall surveillance software that has already made its way into his high school, Marcus fills his spare time futzing about with computers, programming and playing Alternate Reality Games with his friends Daryl, Jolu and Van. During the course of playing just such an ARG on the streets of San Francisco, Marcus and friends find themselves unwittingly caught up in a major terrorist attack on the city and, due to a series of misunderstandings and a draconian military response, find themselves imprisoned in a Guantanamo Bay style military prison where they undergo a particularly harsh interrogation at the hands of the department of homeland security. Four are detained, but only three are released and are told that should they relate their experiences to anyone else they will be “disappeared”. Back on the streets, Marcus discoverss that San Francisco has virtually been transformed into a police state by a DHS that incorporates all manner of technological surveillance in its war on both terror and civil liberties. But technology is something that Marcus knows more than a little about and furious over his treatment and the illegal detention of his friend, he resolves to take down the DHS in the only way he knows how…
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