Icecore by Matt Whyman is the first book in the Carl Hobbes series of thrillers. (This book is known as Inside the Cage in the UK.)Carl Hobbes is a hacker. Maybe the best at getting into places that are supposed to be impossible to get into. He is now wanted for questioning by the CIA for opening the vault at Fort Knox - thought to be the most secure place on the planet.
His lawyer convinces him to go with the CIA to answer questions - he is promised he will be flown to meet with the CIA expert on computer code and then returned to London by the end of the weekend.
Of course, once his is in CIA custody, plans change. He is stripped of his clothes, assigned orange coveralls, put into plastic handcuffs, and put on a plane with some of the most notorious terrorist in the headlines.
They are taken to Icecore, the Guantanamo of the north, in the Arctic. Hobbes is not treated like someone volunteering to answer questions - he is put into a cage and treated like all of the other prisoners. He is starting to wonder if he will ever return to London.
Whyman, Matt. (2007). Icecore: A Carl Hobbes Thriller. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Adults.
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