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The two-time Booker Prize winner now gives us an exceedingly timely, exhilarating novel�at once dark, suspenseful, and seriously funny�that journeys to the place where the cyber underworld collides with international power politics. When Gaby Baillieux releases the Angel Worm into Australia�s prison computer system, hundreds of asylum-seekers walk free. And because the Americans run the prisons (let�s be honest: as they do in so many parts of her country) the doors of some five thousand jails in the United States also open. Is this a mistake, or a declaration of cyber war? And does it have anything to do with the largely forgotten Battle of Brisbane between American and Australian forces in 1942? Or with the CIA-influenced coup in Australia in 1975? Felix Moore, known to himself as �our sole remaining left-wing journalist,� is determined to write Gaby�s biography in order to find the answers�to save her, his own career, and, perhaps, his country. But how to get Gaby�on the run, scared, confused, and angry�to cooperate? Bringing together the world of hackers and radicals with the �special relationship� between the United States and Australia, and Australia and the CIA, Amnesia is a novel that speaks powerfully about the often hidden past�but most urgently about the more and more hidden present. From the Hardcover edition.