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One of the Los Angeles Times ’ 12 Best Books of Summer A Chicago Tribune Coolest Book of Summer “A blast . . . Filled with sharp descriptions and terrific dialogue, Cloudthief stuck with me. I’ve read no other novel that captures so neatly what it means to be a data-center nation.” —John Powers, NPR’s Fresh Air Why settle for nothing when you can steal everything? Forget 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. Tim 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