The Prince's Will
Edgardo Machiavelli
Hacker
Thriller
He just wanted to win over the girl of his dreams…
then his account was hacked!
After escaping a road accident, 15-year-old Raffaele is shaken: the car that almost ran him over missed him but hit the caretaker of his building, to whom he was very close. Raffaele is into computers, and decides to develop “Marlon 2”, a simplified AI through which he can keep the memory of the caretaker, Marlon, alive. Meanwhile his best friend Pao persuades him to try his hand at writing on a social media reading group, in order to win over Alina, the prettiest girl in school, and a passionate book lover. At first it doesn’t seem to work: Raffaele is a terrible writer. But his stories suddenly improve and take a dystopian turn, and Alina starts to get interested, because she loves science fiction. The problem is, he isn’t writing them himself: his account has been hacked. Who is pretending to be him? And why?
Publisher:
Battello a Vapore
Target:
12+
Year:
2025
Author
Christian Hill
Christian Hill is an author and screenwriter. He has written many children’s stories including Il Ladro dei Ceili (The Sky Thief), Rizzoli, winner of the Cento Children’s Literature Prize in 2019, and Olga, una Storia di Pace in Tempo di Guerra (Olga, A Story of Peace in Wartime), Rizzoli, which entered the Italian IBBY Honour List in 2023. His works have been translated into several languages, some of which he can recognise and some of which he can’t. He loves music, role-playing games and his armchair.
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