Already an underground sensation, a high-tech thriller for the
wireless age that explores the unthinkable consequences of a computer
program running without human control – a daemon – designed to dismantle
society and bring about a new world order.
Technology
controls almost everything in our modern-day world, from remote entry
on our cars to access to our homes, from the flight controls of our
airplanes to the movements of the entire world economy. Thousands of
autonomous computer programs, or daemons, make our networked world
possible, running constantly in the background of our lives,
trafficking e-mail, transferring money, and monitoring power grids. For
the most part, daemons are benign, but the same can't always be said
for the people who design them.
Matthew Sobol was a legendary
computer game designer – the architect behind half-a-dozen popular online
games. His premature death depressed both gamers and his company's
stock price. But Sobol’s fans aren't the only ones to note his passing.
When his obituary is posted online, a previously dormant daemon
activates, initiating a chain of events intended to unravel the fabric
of our hyper-efficient, interconnected world. With Sobol's secrets
buried along with him, and as new layers of his daemon are unleashed at
every turn, it's up to an unlikely alliance to decipher his intricate
plans and wrest the world from the grasp of a nameless, faceless
enemy – or learn to live in a society in which we are no longer in
control...
Computer technology expert Daniel Suarez blends
haunting high-tech realism with gripping suspense in an authentic,
complex thriller in the tradition of Michael Crichton, Neal Stephenson,
and William Gibson.
