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Also by Chris Howard

THE WREATH
(with Chloe Howard)
NANOWHERE

Chris Howard

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NANOWHERE

A Lykeion Book

Copyright ?? 2005 by Chris Howard
All rights reserved.

Lykeion Books
P.O. Box 317
Stratham, NH 03885
www.lykeionbooks.com

Cataloging-in-Publication Data
(Provided by Quality Books, Inc.)

Howard, Chris, 1963-
Nanowhere / Chris Howard.
p. cm.
SUMMARY: Alex Shoaler, a geeky skateboarder, loves
the notorious computer hacker, Kaffia Lang. His feelings
for Kaffia are used against him by servants of the
Nanotech visionary, Ernest Straff; pursued by Rost
Institute death squads, Alex is forced to negotiate the
release of a mass-murderer from the Institute.
Audience: Ages 13-18.
LCCN: 2006901912
ISBN-13: 978-0-9773807-2-5
ISBN-10: 0-9773807-2-6
1. Computer hackers--Juvenile fiction.
2. Skateboarders--Juvenile fiction. 3. Nanotechnology--
Juvenile fiction. 4. Adventure stories. 5. Suspense
fiction. 6. Fantasy fiction. [1. Computer hackers--
Fiction. 2. Skateboarders--Fiction. 3. Nanotechnology
--Fiction. 4. Fantasy.] I. Title.

PZ7.H83255Nan 2006 [Fic]
QBI06-600089

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the authors' imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

www.lykeionbooks.com/nanowhere

# ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Many friends, family, and fellow blogging writers helped proofread and edit this story. I'd like to thank Dia, Danni, Chloe, Samir Satam, Jeff Hayes, Greg Hall, Deborah Woehr, Lee Pletzers and Jack Slyde for the numerous corrections and comments they gave me; Christopher for the cool symmetric punishment idea, and Alice for doing a really good job of pretending to accept my nocturnal writing habits.

NANOWHERE

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Joe and Al

DR. ERNEST STRAFF wasn't surprised when the jumptroopers tackled him in his dining room, stuffed his head in a bag, zip-tied his wrists and ankles, dragged him into a clearing in the forest next to his house, and cabled him up into a hovering gunship. He just thought or hoped or wished he had had more time.
In seven hundred and sixteen seconds (Straff was counting) his captors had him over the New Hampshire line, crossing western Mass at a shallow angle that would take him into upstate New York. He knew their direction because he heard a voice through the