Daniel Suarezâs New York Times bestselling debut high-tech thriller is âso frightening even the government has taken noteâ (Entertainment Weekly).
Daemons: computer programs that silently run in the background, waiting for a specific event or time to execute. They power almost every service. They make our networked world possible. But they also make it vulnerable...
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When the obituary of legendary computer game architect Matthew Sobol appears online, a previously dormant daemon activates, initiating a chain of events that begins to unravel our interconnected world. This daemon reads news headlines, recruits human followers, and orders assassinations. With Sobolâs secrets buried with him, and as new layers of his daemon are unleashed, itâs up to Detective Peter Sebeck to stop a self-replicating virtual killer before it achieves its ultimate purposeâone that goes far beyond anything Sebeck could have imagined...