When does Marcus start the approach to the inmost cave? And how does he deal with it?
Marcus starts his approach to the inmost cave as soon as he was released by the DHS. After starting and using the Xnet for a while Marcus started to realize that it was only a matter of time before the DHS caught him again. Marcus is really approaching the inmost cave throughout the whole book. Near the end of the book Marcus starts to realize that it is only a matter of days before the DHS tracks him down and takes him back into custody.
Marcus tries to deal with the approach to the inmost cave by escaping the country with his girlfriend (Ange) and a DHS associate (named Masha) that no longer wanted to be a part of what they were doing. Masha promised that she could get them out of country without anyone catching them or being able to track where they went. In the process of trying to escape Ange gets left behind and captured by the DHS, and Marcus decides that he cannot run away from his problems.
To try and stop the DHS for good, Marcus decides to tell his story to a newspaper journalist that his parents know. Marcus tells her everything that has happened to him, that he had not told anyone else. He decided to do this when he recieved a note from Darryls cell mate that had escaped the DHS facility. Marcus gave the reporter this note along with a video, that he had recieved from Masha, of the President's chief advisor giving the DHS permission to do anything to San Francisco and that he did not care if the city was bombed again.
I really liked this book. Except... for the stupidity of Marcus. He should have just come clean near the beginning of the book. This would have made his life much easier. He should have stopped as you said "running away from his problems" and just dealt with the matter straight away.
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