Assured Destruction — Michael F. Stewart

Teenage hacker, Janus Rose, doesn't care about the moral choices of living multiple lives online, until the real life consequences of her actions enslaves her to the local PD's High Tech Crime Unit, forcing her to become the very creature hackers hate, a spook.



Jan owes the world nothing. Her father left without a word. #BIGSECRET Her mother has progressive Multiple Sclerosis. And Jan juggles the need to complete homework with the need to keep pizza on the table, running the family computer recycling business. Living in an industrial park with crappy Feng Shui, Jan's pretty sure that the only one she can depend on is herself. Maybe. And yet, just because she knows how to code, people seem to think they can depend on her to save their butts and solve their crimes.



Jan does take short cuts. She skirts the shadows of what's right and wrong. But she has to; if she's not multitasking then she fails out of school, or the family loses the business, or someone dies ...



It's a brave new world. Welcome to ASSURED DESTRUCTION.