For The Win

[turbov21]

Cory Doctorow's latest book, For The Win has a scene in it where a Chinese security guard is helping factory workers get back in a recently closed appliance factory.  Anyway, here's the relevant part:

Around Lu, the screams rose in pitch and small, feminine fists flailed at the air. Who were they shouting at? The factory was empty. The factory was empty. If they climbed the fence, cutting the barbed wire at the top, and then broke the locks on the factory doors, they'd have the run of the place. They couldn't carry out a condenser dryer -- not easily, anyway -- but there were plenty of small things: tools, chairs, things from the kitchen, the personal belongings of the girls who hadn't thought to bring them with when the fire alarm sounded. Lu knew about all the things that could be smuggled out of the factory. He was a security guard. Or had been. Part of his job had been to search the other employees when they left to make sure they weren't stealing. His supervisor, Mr Chu, had searched him at the end of each shift, in turn. He wasn't sure who, if anyone, searched Mr Chu.

He had a small multitool that he clipped to his belt every morning. Having a set of pliers, a knife, and a screwdriver on you all the time changed the way you saw the world -- it became a place to be cut, sliced, pried and unscrewed.

"Is that your only jacket?" he shouted into the ear of the girl he'd been talking to. She was a little shorter than him, with a large mole on her cheek that he rather liked.

"Of course not!" she said. "I have three others inside."

"If I get you those three, can I use this one?" He unfolded the pliers on his multitool. They were joined by a set of cogs that compounded the leverage of a squeezing palm, and the jaws of the plier were inset with a pair of wicked-sharp wire-cutters. The girl in his village had worked for a time in the SOG factory in Dongguan and she'd given him a pair and wished him good luck in South China.

I don't have my PowerLock with me, but I don't recall them having wire cutters.  May be misremembering, though.  It's too bad Lu didn't have J-sews PowerCut.  He wouldn't have had to go over the fence.

[AHB]

There can be only one "Keeper of the PowerCut."      

[Neil]

Perhaps you're in the next book Allan

[DaveK]

Cool name dropping there

[Viper]

For the record, SOG tools DO have wire cutters. 

[J-sews]

.....and the jaws of the plier were inset with a pair of wicked-sharp wire-cutters. The girl in his village had worked for a time in the SOG factory in Dongguan.....

Sounds more like that (recalled) West Marine Fishing Multi-Tool that Dennis told us about. It has actual wire cutter inserts