JAKE/GEEK - Haslett, Reonne

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Résumé :
Get a hold of yourself, Jake. I'm not alone. I'm not alone, I'm not alone. I repeat this mantra, hands fisted at my sides. Suddenly, I remember the chip in my head. Jake Green is a cyber genius with all the geek cred a 15-year-old can handle. Since his parents' divorce he's focused on hacking for the sheer thrill of it, until one day his best friend, Oshi O'Malley, goes missing. Jake's convinced a virus he planted in a rival's laptop is the cause of Oshi's disappearance. He won't stop till he finds her, including breaking into a top-secret military base using psychic cloaking, an implanted microchip, and futuristic spyware from the Department of Paranormal Research at Stanford University. With the help of a fugitive hacker and his high-end gear, Jake discovers a 25-year-old classified experimental project called ENERGENX, where human subjects were transported into the World Wide Web, never to return. Jake suspects Oshi's disappearance is connected to one of the developers of ENERGENX, Buckminster Stone. As the hours turn into days, Jake realizes he must enlist the help of his flamboyant 11-year-old sister, Sara, and his 14-year-old protege, Paulie Schwartz, if he is to find Oshi in time. Jake's beliefs are shaken to their core when he enters the particle transmutation pod from the ENERGENX experiment and drops into the World Wide Web, where he fends off creepy avatars and defies Stone in a battle for his brain. Will Jake find Oshi in time-and will they come out of this alive? If there was a moment in my life where I would do anything-be stung by a thousand bees, jump off a fifty-foot-high cliff into a baby pool, have my teeth pulled out with pliers-I would do it, if it meant I could help Oshi. I focus any energy I have left into trying to remember my Revenge Virus. And then, instantaneously, the code lights up in my head....

Biographie:
Reonne Haslett has an immense imagination. As early as age seven, she orchestrated the neighborhood kids' playtime from her time machine (a refrigerator box). Being chased by dinosaurs or piloting a rocket of space explorers was her daily routine. Once she picked up a pencil, she couldn't stop. By the 3rd grade her stories were winning awards. She has been writing professionally her entire adult life. Due to her natural curiosity, she has a passion for science fiction and the supernatural. Her love of storytelling led her to the film business, where she wrote and edited screenplays as well as produced feature films, including Quest of the Delta Knights, a 15th century fantasy. Reonne continues to express her vivid ideas on the page with her debut sci-fi/fantasy novel for young adults, Jake/Geek. Her current projects are a YA supernatural thriller involving some creatures no one has yet put a name to, and a TV pilot blending the paranormal with the mining history of her home town, Grass Valley, California. She lives among the evergreens with her old tabby cat. To learn more about Reonne and Jake/Geek, please visit www.reonnehaslett.com....