YA fiction. Hacker's friend goes "missing", belongings found at the beach. He breaks into Area 51? Pulls a guy's eye out for a retinal scan... Spoiler.

[Ben]

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[Kris]

Ben, what's the genre - e.g., YA thriller, mystery, science fiction, etc.?

Around what year did you read this book?

I removed what sounds like a spoiler and added a spoiler alert. (Let us know if this actually happens early in the story.)

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"... and finds his missing friend there and its all a big security test for the facility"
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