His adoptive parents are mean, miserable and mostly absent. His teachers can't cope with his brilliant mind. But then his psychologist, Thaddeus Roth, recommends a new school--and Cadel settles in to every teenage computer genius's dream.
At the Axis Institute, he learns to circumnavigate firewalls, build systems that can't be bridged, disguise himself, forge documents, and design explosives.
Better still, Cadel makes an online friend, Kay-Lee, whose quirky mathematical mind matches and even surpasses his own--which comes in handy when Cadel discovers Thaddeus' real motives.
Exciting and creative, like the Harry Potter series, Evil Genius raises many questions about the nature of good, evil, betrayal, and friendship that will make teen readers demand the sequel, Genius Squad.
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