He engineers a system on his Xbox where he can anonymously work against the DHS, giving himself a new screen name, M1k3y. The three teens agree to keep quiet about their experiences and tell their parents that they were quarantined across the bay instead.Īt home, Marcus discovers that the DHS has bugged his laptop. Marcus vows revenge, but the DHS will come after him if he tells anyone about their tactics.

Five days after the bombing, they are released, but Marcus is horrified to find that San Francisco has been turned into a surveillance state and that Darryl, who was separated from them in prison, is still missing. Swept up by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and taken to Treasure Island, a secret offshore military prison, they are brutally interrogated for days. He is a genius at getting around the technological surveillance systems in his school however, he and his band of friends, Darryl Glover, Vanessa “Van” Pak, and Jose-Luis “Jolu” Torrez, are in the wrong place at the wrong time when they ditch school to play an alternative reality game on the very day that terrorists bomb the city. The protagonist, Marcus, is a 17-year-old senior at Cesar Chavez High in San Francisco. This guide references scenes from the book that contain terrorism and violence, including the waterboarding torture of a teenager. This guide references the 2008 edition of Little Brother published by Tor Teen books.Ĭontent Warning: This guide is based on a book that is geared for older teens and adults.

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