Set against the backdrop of the globalization crisis, Edmundo Paz Soldn"s latest novel is a modern chapter in the age-old fight between oppressed and oppressor. The town of Ro Fugitivo is on the verge of a social revolutionnot 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 Senz, Black Chamber"s most famous codebreaker, who begins to suspect that his work is not as innocent as he once supposed. All converge to create an edgy, fast-paced story about personal responsibility and complicity in a world defined by the ever-increasing gulfs between the global and the...