Chapter 16-57 (The Rest of The Book):
Sam is called away to stop a security breach in the CDC and he takes part in a battle that almost destroys all of the CDC but just before they are diminished something just destroys all of the attackers. They trace it back to an apartment to find that the hackers have been brainwashed quite literally and have no knowledge or ability. But after life resumes to normal for only a few days to when out of the blue Swamp Witch the supervisor for Sam's group stumbles out of her office brain washed just like the people in the apartment. Then confusion occurs and everyone who is wearing a nuero cap is convinced that Dodge and Sam attacked the Swamp Witch. But then all of a sudden Dodge is almost brain washed after he puts on a nuero-cap. Which puts Sam with a dead weight on the run from the CDC head quarters. In the garage of the CDC they run into Veinna who they convince they are innocent and she helps them escape and flee to a mall. At the mall they are chased by jagged while discovering the news the Nuero-Caps are intact the cause of the brain-washing and are controlling the people after them. Through events Sam Veinna, and a conscious Dodge capture Jaggard as a hostage and leave the mall to head for Las Vegas the nuclear wasteland that was once a city field by gambling. After a week and so in a radiation free area of Las Vegas they are discovered and must head on the run again. But during their escape Veinna is exposed to radiation and Jaggard is relieved of his controlled mind, and is once again conscious. They head for the one place they could realesed a virus created by Dodge and they make it there with the unknown outcome of Veinna or Jaggard. But in the final minutes before death Sam releases the virus and destroys the System that was condoling them. The End.

Chapter 15 (Peach Bottom): Sam is awoken in the middle of the night and taken back to his workstation with Dodge. Hackers are trying to access the stats and information of some old boiling water reactors. They determine it to be an inside job and the tactical team is sent out. Sam tampers with some of the data at the same time that Dodge traces them to a house in Cleveland. Tactical takes them down but Dodge concludes the information is worthless and it was a test by the enemy to see how they would react and how fast.

Chapter 14 (Lockdown): Sam is stuck in his room waiting for a call from the CDD alerting him of a task. When suddenly he gets a call from Dodge asking him to come for a swim in their hotel swimming pool. Sam agrees to waste some time till his next act of duty. While at the swimming pool Dodge runs around naked, some girls smile at Sam, and Sam gets some answers about his recruitment and learns a little bit about his teammates while his teammates learn about him. The chapter ends with Sam retreating to his hotel room to sleep only to be phoned by the CDD.

Chapter 13 (Last Line Of Defence): This chapter mainly focuses on Sam's first day at the CCD. Sam is given a cyber tour of CDD and is introduced to "Swamp Witch" and learns that she is in charge of is division. Sam finally grasps the idea that he is on the 'other side' and is assigned as Dodge's wingman. Dodge summarizes they are the first and the last line of defence. 

Chapter 12 (Silicon Valley): This chapter begins with Sam sitting in a waiting room until he is approached by an ex-military man. The man leads him down long featureless corridors until they reach the man's office. A woman hands the man a folder that he glances at and then hands back. They go in and the man introduces himself as John Jaggard and explains the CDD (Cyber Defence Division) and that Neoh@ack and the prison were just a test. Jaggard offers him a high paying job and leads him into a circular room full of workstations occupied by Dodge, Vienna (Rock Chick Bride), and a few others including Kiwi.

Chapter 11 (Prison Break): Sam starts his daring escape when the fire bell rings, unlocking doors for him in Recton Penitentiary. He makes his daring escape from the main building with the advantage of knowing guard protocols and the prison's system. But when he makes it to the front gate he is confronted by a guard with the almighty intention of stoping Sam. But after a conversation with the guard Sam outsmarts the guard and completes his escape. When roaming the streets he hops into a cab. The chapter then finishes with a conspiracy like tone when he realizes that the cabbie is intact Skullface from Neoh@ck.

Chapter 10 (The Wreck): In this chapter, Sam describes the intense security protocols at Retcon and sources Google for all of the information. Sam is also told by Kiwi that Retcon likes to "Throw away the key."This results in Sam planning his escape. He starts to measure the walking area and timing the guards rotations. At the end of the chapter, Sam decides that he will escape before he turns 18.

Chapter 9 (The Library): Sam browses the computers and finds that it is practically impossible to do anything. Sam only finds one exploit. the spread-sheet program. By creating a complex mathematical calculation with no end and copied the equation onto eleven other spreadsheets causing the computer to start a reboot. This enabled Sam to boot the computer in safe mode, allowing him to create a backdoor that gave him administer control. Soon Sam has the system info, guard rosters, and most importantly the doors key codes.

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Chapter 8 (Kiwi): Sam is startled by a knock at the door. He is promptly arrested and sent to the Cyber Crime Juvenile Prison. Sam later meets Kiwi, another juvenile criminal. Kiwi tells sam that there are computers in the library.

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Chapter 7 (Neohack):  Sam hacks into the White House's network and finds a partition on the hard-drive lab led NeoH@ck. Sam later realizes that he never touched the keyboard or mouse. He goes back to practising his skills with the neuro-headset.

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Chapter 6 (The White House): In this chapter Sam arrives home and has a sandwich with his mother, then gets on his computer and hacks into the White House using SAT protocol (By exploiting and corrupting mutable e-mails from numerous servers to gain access to a peer to peer network).

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Chapter 5 (Freaks and Geeks): Sam and Fargas arrive at Neo H@ack a hackers conference for the best of the best. When arrival he walks around and is satisfied by all the gossip about telecomercia all of them knowing it was him and he wanted it that way. In there he meets two people. One, Skull face and the other Rocker Chick Bride. Both of which he converses with. but at the end of the conversation Sam gets the knowledge of that the warehouse where he stands is not Neo H@ck. Neo H@ck is in the White Houses Internet system one of the securest in the world.

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Chapter 4 (Ursula): This chapter in no way relates to the Little Mermaid even though the nuero headsets guide does share the name of a Disney villain. In this chapter Sam and Fargas get the Headsets they ordered with such trouble from Telecomercia. It walks through the practise steps for using the Nuero Headset and how different and cool it can be compared to an old fashioned keyboard. But in the end of the Chapter Sam and Fargas leave for NeoH@ck a hackers convention.

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Chapter 3 (Chaos): Even though this chapter is brief it shows how unknowing people can be towards the capability one can do. Sam walks into his school nodding to the school's security guards knowing he halted America. This chapter was designed to show how normal extraordinary can be.

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Chapter 2 (Telecomercia): Sam sits in a Cafe breaking into a secure company just to achieve the merit of doing so and two pairs of Nuero Headsets the new hottest fad. Through complications Sam is forced to release viruses into the companies computers to erase trace of himself and to make a clean getaway from the cyber guards of Telecomercia but in the end somewhat destroying the US cyber system halting society. This chapter pushes you into the story showing how dire consequences can be for his actions and how he seems mature but he is a kid playing with a gun.

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Chapter 1 Summary: The Book introduces Sam as a smart and somewhat sleek teen on his way headed somewhere foreshadowing that the act he is about to commit is illegal. He also heads down a drug alley called "Gamers Alley" seeing how in the book Video Games are an addictive drug that diminishes many to homelessness with a virtual mansion. The chapter also introduces Fargas a friend that is brother like to Sam and his Partner in Crime that eats popcorn for breakfast. This chapter is a hook that shows you a realistic fiction that intrigues you to read more.

Below is our discussions about chapters 1-3

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This blog is written by CCT (Coenraad, Charlie, and Tyler) all people of different views and backgrounds. This here is a intro written by Coenraad and edited by Charlie. We have currently just started the blog and not the book. This is a blog about our research and experiences as we read Brian Falkner's Brain Jack.

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