She strolled up to Cris in a knot of friends and hangers-on, her skin chocolate and azure, her hair a shimmering bow done in soft shades of orange. Her holodress swirled around her like a writhing snake, revealing dark thighs and the occasional smooth curve of breast, but Marica was like that...

Marcus, a.k.a "w1n5t0n," is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works-and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school's intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems. *Nominated for 2009 Hugo Awards for Best Novel*

A horror novel about the living dead in the George Romero / Michael Crichton tradition.