Nanowhere

Kaffia Lang's an experienced hacker. She's cautious, but her inability to turn down any network cracking challenge often leads her and anyone with her into danger. Alex, a geeky skater, new at school, works his way into the mysterious technological world she's created. He doesn't know whether he loves her or fears her, but he's forced to choose when he finds himself caught in a tangle of revenge, and Kaffia's life hangs on every decision he makes. Nanowhere ...is a love story with all the usual rogue soldiers, computer hacking, tyranny, cryptography, hit-men with an affinity for rolled adhesives, rebellious skateboarders, and sentient billion-node self-organizing nanotech ghosts. "Chris Howard has released an...interesting and well-written..sf thriller called Nanowhere along with a bunch of supplementary materials that purports to be the lab notes and publications of one of the book's characters..." --Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing Alex Shoaler, a geeky skateboarder, loves the notorious computer hacker, Kaffia Lang. His feelings for Kaffia are used against him by servants of the Nanotech visionary, Ernest Straff; pursued by Rost Institute death squads, Alex is forced to negotiate the release of a mass-murderer from the Institute