The whole story is based on the consequences of on day “Hey, kid! Want to make some money ?” at this point lots of thoughts come crashing in to our mind like you imagine some sort of deep voice talking to the boy which in fact is Karl Muller we are told that the boy is in café
Then he is offered some money so his wondering how much he will get and a man who was sitting on his table before, tells him not to take less than 20 marks.
He has never seen Karl Muller before and was suspicious about who he was.
Karl Muller offered him fifteen marks the boy wanted 20 but was interested on the money so he agreed “okay it’s a deal!”(p3) the boy then asked “what do I have to do” so Karl Muller told the boy to go to a shop and also asks for a package from beagle.
Luckily the boy knew the area “it was and area of town I knew quite well” (p3) the boy had no trouble finding the shop.
when he arrived he knocked on the door he saw that the windows where blanked out and an old lady come out from the shop and asked what he wanted he said he was looking for beagle the old lady did not know what he was talking about but then she called her husband .
Wilheim the old lady’s husband looked funny and the boy wanted to Lough but he covered his mouth at this point of the story the boy understands why Karl Muller called him beagle.
Then the man asked what he wanted and the boy told him that Karl Muller sent him to pick up a package so the man went to get the package and give it to him.
Chapter2
In this chapter Karl shows the boy his computer and what he could do with it.
The boy then went to Karls apparent to deliver the package and get paid.
when he got inside he saw that everything was dirty and there was coffee mugs on the table e that were also dirty but Karl said “ this is not much but I call it home” by this we become conscious that Karl doesn’t care much about were he leaves. At on one corner there was a computer that was the cleanest place of the whole apparent he asked the boy if he new what that was the boy wasn’t sure it’s a computer isn’t it?” Karl then assured him and told him the specifications of his computer.
The boy asked Karl what it was for. Karl said “that was his window to the world the after a while he asked the boy to name a place he said “china” then Karl said first of all we’ll take a trip to Hamburg.
Chapter3
The boy gets in to a fight and after a month goes back to see beagle Karl appeared from somewhere and was concern about what happened to the boy and invites the boy to The friendly café “hop into my car and let me buy you a cup of coffee.”(p15) and the boy expected to se and old car but was totally the opposite .the car reminded the boy of Karls apartment and suggests he should get a cleaner if he can afford such a car.
After the he brought the boy a cup of hot chocolate they went to Karls apartment and Karl showed him the internet again they entered a site that was called sdinet laboratory then Karl said he struck gold but the boy wasn’t sure what he was talking about but Karl didn’t tell the boy what it was, but told him not to tell anybody of what he saw today.
Chapter4
The next morning he saw him self in the mirror looked like “someone who looked like he’d gone 15 rounds with a champion heavyweight boxer” (p20).the boy couldn’t get the words TOP SECRET out of his head.
For the first time the boy was interested on computers. The boy wanted to find out what Karl was doing. he did some research on the schools library on computers and remembered Karl talking about the internet so he found a book about the internet .The boy went to Karls apartment to ask him some questions but Karl wasn’t in or didn’t open the door as the boy was going back home he was kidnapped “unable to cry out and too shocked to react, found myself hoisted off my feet and dragged into a near by car”(p21)and taken to a warehouse and asked how much he knows about Karl Muller the boy said that he was just someone he meet at the café .
Chapter 5
The kidnapers let the boy go “Rhino himself who pulled open the car door and indicated with a jerk of his thumb that I was free to go.”(p26) The boy realized that he was left at the same place were he was first picked up, Karls apartment.
The went in and told Karl what had happened afterwards asked Karl if he new the kidnappers “ do you know those people” Karl told the boy that he doesn’t know them personally after a while he tells the boy that he is a hacker “well that’s what I am – a hacker!” (p27) and he explains to the boy what did “I make money by hacking into certain places and selling any information I find there to certain people I know.”(p27/28)
Chapter6
The boy received a letter “meet me at the café” (p32) the boy assumed it was from Karl but Karl never arrived. Later on when the place was empty Helmut arrived .Helmut took the boy to his apartment .the boy was surprised of Helmut’s apartment it was newly decorated “Helmut’s apartment was the proverbial palace” (p33)
Helmut asked the boy “how much do you what we are doing?” (P 33)
The boy told Helmut that he only knew a little.
Helmut was really angry then he offered the boy if he wanted to become part but the boy refused the he was kidnapped again “struggling’ll do you no good,” the kidnapers were not the same as last time .
Chapter7
The kidnappers brought him to the fairground “I had no idea why my kidnapper had decided to bring me to a fairground.”
They went into the ghost train .They thought that the boy was a hacker
The kidnappers told the boy to give Helmut a message .
chapter8
The boy didn’t give the message to Helmut.
Karl told the boy something about Helmut “he’s a very dangerous guy”
(p46)
Chapter 9
On School holidays the boy sees smoke on the park coming from the distance and realizes that it was Karl’s car and the driver was still in, it was Helmut burned in the car.
Chapter 10
The boy goes running into Karl’s apartment and tells him what he saw then they hear some one knocking on the door, it was the police and FBI Karl gets arrested for computer piracy and the boy manages to escape
Chapter11
The boy tells us that all this has happened almost ten years ago
And we realize that the beginning it’s actually the end and it starts to make sense.