{"product_id":"cloudthief","title":"Cloudthief","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eOne of the \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/span\u003e’ 12 Best Books of Summer\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/span\u003e Coolest Book of Summer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy settle for nothing when you can steal everything?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForget banks, casinos, museums—society’s most valuable treasure sits in the giant, anonymous data centers that power modern life. There, in endless rows of hard drives, lies the sum of our civilization’s knowledge, all of the world’s personal and private truths, uploaded and saved. They wait unseen, unexploited, and, most critically, unguarded.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTim is a climate journalist disillusioned with chronicling the end of the world. Virginia is a brilliant, paranoid, and tech-savvy con artist who has devised a way to live off the grid in the heart of Manhattan. Joined by desire and desperation, the two hatch a plan to steal secrets. But they have secrets of their own—secrets they can’t tell each other, secrets that could destroy them both . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith their last few dollars and some dime-store wigs, they set out for the outskirts of Tulsa, Oklahoma, the unlikely site of the world’s largest repository of knowledge—a data center the size of a small city—to attempt a brazen heist that, whether they fail or succeed, will change their lives forever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut in Nathaniel Rich’s \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eCloudthief\u003c\/span\u003e, the heist is only the beginning.\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e“A blast . . . Filled with sharp descriptions and terrific dialogue, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eCloudthief \u003c\/span\u003estuck with me. I’ve read no other novel that captures so neatly what it means to be a data-center nation.” —John Powers, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eNPR’s Fresh Air\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"McDonald Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42958725972048,"sku":"9780374619794B","price":12.49,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9780374619794-l.jpg?v=1790008223","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/en-ca\/products\/cloudthief","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}