As the police, the FBI gather to stop Sobol’s plan, it appears that the hackers and gamers may have a better chance.

With the technology available, he can know everyone about anyone online, knowledge that he uses to recruit, implicate, and destroy. What that purpose is however, we don’t know.Īnyone who gets in his way will be killed. Sobol is still at work after is death, controlling companies, funds, changing lives-and their histories, with a specific purpose in mind. When he dies, a little computer program called a daemon reads the obituary and goes active.

Matthew Sobol is a very successful designer of some of the most popular computer games. Technology and its effect on society fascinate me. This first book has over 8,000 ratings/reviews, so I figured it should be a good one to check out. I will be starting the second book in another week or two.

A few loose ends are tied, but the story clearly has a long way to go. It does leave you midway through an incredible tale. This first book by Daniel Suarez is book one in a two part series. It is current, a lot of it is plausible, and a too much of it may be probable. It is completely earthbound with no vampires, aliens, or anything like that. Both are considered science fiction because of technology. After the success with that science fiction selection I was ready for another.Īs in Ready Player One, Daemon is definitely a novel I would recommend to everyone. I loved it from start to finish, and suggested it to so many friends so often that several of them finally read it too. It has over 16,000 ratings/reviews, so you can see why I was curious. If you have read that, I would love to hear from you. The first book that drew me away from my favorite mystery/suspense/thriller was a book called Ready Player One. Which is why I finally bought Daemon in the audio version. Yet some of the books in Sci-Fi have a huge number of ratings and reviews. I always have a need to add, “This is not what I would normally read,” to any review I do. That genre covers a host of ideas these days, some that are of interest, others too far out of my comfort zone. Suarez.Īny time I read a book like Daemon, classified as science fiction, I get a little nervous. Let me start this review by stating that this book is fantastic.

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