The blurb read well but the story didn't make for satisfying read at all...

(I received a free copy of this book from Net Galley in exchange for an honest review.)

How does a young woman from suburban Melbourne become America's public enemy number one?
When Gaby Baillieux releases the Angel Worm into the computers of Australia's prison system, freeing hundreds of asylum seekers, she sets off a chain reaction. These prisons are run by US companies, and so the doors of some 5000 American institutions have also opened. And to some watching eyes, the secrets of both countries threaten to pour out.
Was this a mistake? Or has the elusive Gaby declared cyberwar on the US, as part of the longstanding covert conflict between the two countries that has as its most outrageous act the CIA-engineered coup of 1975 - a coup so brazen we immediately forgot it as part of our Great Amnesia.

Is this the same guy who wrote Oscar and Lucinda? The same man who penned Jack Maggs? This was a hugely disappointing novel - in particular, because it didn't seem to know what it wanted to be.

Was this the story of a young hacker, who broke into the prison system's computers and released hundreds of asylum seekers (and thousands of US prisoners, as the system was owned by the US)? Or was it another tired look at the Whitlam sacking, and dragging up all that old news for the sake of it?

Or was it just a chance to name-drop as many names as he could in as few pages as possible?

Either way, this story just seemed to be a mashed together attempt at current political climates being compared - very loosely - to historical events.

And it simply didn't work, in my opinion.


Paul
ARH