Little Brother 4

What breaking news and another major plot twist.  Spoiler alert Darryl is not dead.  That changes so much about the novel and give Marcus even more of a reason to rebel and fight for the rights that the Department of Homeland Security seems to be taking away from people to try to keep the enemy from attaching again.  They do this by tracking people and taking in random people off the street for questioning.  They take over a persons rights to privacy and treat everyone like they are a threat to the country.  They put more of a scare into the people than the attack did. This book takes place in the near future that really is not that far away.  We have to capabilities to do many of the things that the government did in this book.  They can track through phones and cards and other personal items on your person.  This book also parallels the past in ways too.  The procedures and the way the government acted was very similar to the September 11 attacks across the country.  The government didn't take it to the extreme like they did in this novel but when you think about it this could have happened in real life.  The government could have taken people to secret prisons and interrogated people until they had not more of a use for them.  The government  would swear you to secrecy just like Marcus and if you told anyone the story they would take you back to the prison. This story has been one of the greatest reads that I have ever enjoyed.  I hope you find time to read it as well