Signal to Noise (Eric Nylund)

This was one of the worst SF books I’ve ever read; it was equal parts cardboard character, pseudo-scientific handwaving, and hackneyed adventure plot (rogue hacker, sinister government agents, beautiful but untrustworthy assassin from the other side who turns out to have a heart of gold). You get the idea. Put it this way: my brother loaned me the sequel, and I’m not going to read it.