A Brief Summary of the Book

Sometime in the near future, America has gone over board with security, the government controls every bit of everyone's lives with security cameras, tracking devices, and other little bugs. Most people have simply accepted what has happened and lived under the fact that the government was watching their every move. But Marcus Yallow, a 17 year old student who goes to Cesar Chavez high school in San Francisco  has figured out how to constantly slip through these security systems. Although he only uses this knowledge to escape his school and play games with his friends, he and his pals end up in the wrong place at the wrong time and are detained by the DHS (Department of Homeland Security) as suspected terrorists.  Marcus tries to explain what actually happened, but the DHS doesn't back down that easily. Marcus and his friends are interrogated for days and even when let go, are told they will be even more closely monitored. No one wants to live like this, and more events lead Marcus to hate the DHS. After consulting with his friends, he decides that he has no choice, he must go to war.