Review
From the book
jacket: The town of Río Fugitivo in
Bolivia is on the verge of a social
revolution—not a revolution of strikes
and street riots but a war waged
electronically, where computer viruses
are the weapons and hackers the
revolutionaries. In this war of
information, the lives of a variety of
characters become entangled: Kandinsky,
the mythic leader of a group of hackers
fighting the government and
transnational companies; Albert, the
founder of Black Chamber, a state
security firm charged with deciphering
the secret codes used in the information
war; and Miguel Sáenz, Black Chamber's
most famous codebreaker, who begins to
suspect that his work...
Beyond the Book
The Republic
of Bolivia,
is a mountainous
landlocked
country that
boasts the
highest capital
city in the
world at 4km
above sea level.
It is bordered
by Brazil, Peru,
Chile, Argentina
and Paraguay.
It's population
of about 9
million people
enjoy three
official
languages -
Spanish, Quechua
and Aymara.
It's per capita
GDP is less than
$3,000...
