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Hacking Timbuktu (2010)

by Stephen Davies(Favorite Author)

3.68 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0547390165 (ISBN13: 9780547390161)

languge

English

genre

Young Adult Fiction

publisher

Clarion Books

review 1: Danny and his friend Omar hack into a computer to find a clue to lead them to a long lost treasure in Mali, Africa. They have a lot of treasure hunters after them, trying to stop them and get their hands on the treasure first. It's a good read, but it talks a lot about parkour which I'm not really into. Learning about Dogon country was great. The magic square was my favorite part- how they found the clue to the treasure embedded in it. The end of Chapter 27 reminds me a little of Sherlock Holmes.
review 2: Hacking Timbuktu by Stephen Davies starts out in modern day England. Danny is a hacker and a traceur, although his IT skills outstrips his parkour. One day after a long day at a hacker conference, Danny finds himself drug into a 700+ year old treasure hunt... more for 2 million bars of gold when a stranger breaks into his flat and tries to force him to hack a computer in Timbuktu to get the treasure map. He gets away, then finds the map himself. Greed, loyalty and cunning all play roles in his dash to Timbuktu with his friend, an expert traceur at his side, chased by other treasure hunters, some of which are willing to kill to get the gold. less

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