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Daemon (Daemon #1)

by Daniel Suarez

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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...more

Hardcover, 432 pages

Published January 8th 2009 by Dutton Adult (first published January 1st 2009)

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Jan 22, 2010

Kemper rated it

Shelves: cyber, thriller

If you were someone with more computer knowledge and money than Bill Gates, and you found out you were dying, would you:

A) Give all your money to charity just in case you can buy your way into heaven.
B) Indulge in an around the world drinking, drug and sex spree until going out in a blaze of glory by crashing your private jet into an erupting volcano live on CNN.
C) Pour all your money into a cryogenics program and freeze yourself like Walt Disney in the hope that they’ll ...more

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Feb 23, 2009

Michael rated it

Shelves: read-in-2009, science-fiction

Billionaire computer software mogul Matthew Sobol has died and he wants to make sure he leaves behind a legacy. That legacy comes in the form of a daemon, or a computer programing running in the background of every system that has installed his massively popular on-line, multi-player video game. When news of Sobol's death hits the Internet, the daemon becomes active, creating havoc across the world as it exploits vulnerabilities in computer networks and uses them for its own purposes.

...moreBillionaire computer software mogul Matthew Sobol has died and he wants to make sure he leaves behind a legacy. That legacy comes in the form of a daemon, or a computer programing running in the background of every system that has installed his massively popular on-line, multi-player video game. When news of Sobol's death hits the Internet, the daemon becomes active, creating havoc across the world as it exploits vulnerabilities in computer networks and uses them for its own purposes.

Daniel Suarez's first novel "Daemon" is a fascinating, compelling and, at times, downright scary story of just how open to attack and manipulation many of our computer networks are. It may be one thing to think about hackers taking advantage gaps in the security to get free wi-fi Internet access, but it's entirely another to see a home security system run amok, intent on killing anyone who tries to approach Sobol's home and to disable it. Or seeing how easily the system can manipulate multiple networks to reduce the sentence of a hardened criminal from maximum security prison to a low-security facility and eventually set free in order to facilitate the next step in the daemon's plan.

The story of how Suarez's novel went from a self-published story to a major book contract and potential movie deal is one that will give hope to every aspiring writer out there. Suarez got his book into the hands of a target audience and created a buzz for himself that it was impossible for a conventional publisher to ignore. But the thing is--if "Daemon" weren't a good book, no one would be talking about it. And "Daemon" is that good.

This is not a book to pick up at bedtime and think you're going to read a few pages before you head to sleep. "Daemon" is the kind of book that you find yourself lulled into, thinking you're only reading a few pages and spending a few minutes caught up in this high-tech, scary and all to close to real world, only to find you've read half the book, its 2 a.m. and you've got to be at work in a few hours. And you still find yourself regretting having to put the book aside. "Daemon" is smart, fresh and reminded me a lot of the early intensity of Tom Clancy novels. Suarez clearly knows and understands his technology but is able to translate that into the story without it feeling like he's bringing the plotline to a halt for an infodump.

The only negative thing I can say about this book is that it was over too soon and left me wanting more. Suarez has promised a sequel and the book comes to a conclusion that effectively wraps up the story for this book but leaves open a lot of doors for a sequel. It's a sequel that I will be waiting impatiently for at my local bookstore.

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Mar 08, 2009

Mike rated it

Recommends it for: God--we used to fear You, now we fear another kind of programmer.

I learned that we used to fear supercomputers (cf. The Corbin Project) but now should fear superprogrammers and/or obsessive gamers. There's all kinds of pleasure one could take in chewing over the metaphorical fodder of this novel's central Threat: is it a gloss on the blurring of virtual and real worlds? A jeremiad about the dangers of our super-networked interglobalizachology? Or a veiled reminder of the way terrorist cells take down the body politic? Or...

Ah, fuck it. Big sc...more

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Jul 11, 2009

Nathan rated it

Shelves: nashville-library

Awful. "Daemon" suffers from all the usual pitfalls of the first novel: unoriginal premise, wooden dialogue, melodramatic action, clumsy exposition, sloppy resolution, inconsequential subplotting. When the author tries to be witty, he comes off as conceited; when he tries to impress with his tech-savvy, he sounds as if he's quoting from "Popular Science" magazine. This was the worst book I've read in a while, and I'm not sure whether I want Daniel Suarez to stop writing altog...more

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Aug 11, 2009

Chris rated it

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Well written, and successfully both gripping and credibly accurate, as one would expect of a book reviewed on Slashdot. Unfortunately, the beginning has several problems, all of which may be Suarez attempting to ensure he is taken seriously:

* The painstakingly correct detail distracts from the story a bit.
* The concept of the world being decided by a battle between carders feels silly.
* Suarez makes it a point to demonstrate just how evil some of the characters are. This ...more

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Apr 10, 2009

Keri rated it

Into the third chapter of this book I had to close it for good. I was very disappointed given its good reviews. There were a few swear words but as the F-bombs started to land, the Rave parties began, drug dealers started trash talking, prostitutes hit the scene and a date rape began I had to quit, all before chapter 4. This was such a departure from the "computer program gone awry, murder mystery" premise I was totally taken off guard. I wish there was a content rating for books lik...more

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Oct 03, 2011

Weavre rated it

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Shelves: fiction-set-here-and-nowish

In the Eighties, I read and loved the genre called "cyberpunk," and was disappointed to see it vanish as the fantasy Net was replaced with the very real Web, imagined microcommunicators were replaced with Bluetooth headsets, and anyone anywhere with a bit of knowledge and equipment became able--for real--to dive into government databases, corporate financial records, and anything else on the web. Cyberpunk-era virtual reality bore a strong resemblance to Second Life, but as the reality...more

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Nov 04, 2010

Otis Chandler rated it

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Shelves: thriller, geek, ai

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Jan 08, 2009

Samantha rated it

Recommended to Samantha by: Vine Book

This is definitely one of the best books I've read in a year. The premise was fascinating. It's a great thrill ride. Can someone program computers with backdoor programs to read the newswires and make other things happen? Can a computer drive a car and kill people? Are there people so involved in the gaming world that they would do things in the real world just because a game told them to or just to earn more points in their gaming world? This book is extremely fast paced and never boring. Don't...more

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Feb 25, 2009

Samantha rated it

A solid debut novel from Mr. Suarez. This highly suspenseful techno-thriller/dystopian sci fi tale is centered around a genius computer game designer, Matthew Sokol who has passed away. But his legacy is sinister indeed - a computer program, aka a "daemon," so complex it sets up a series of fatal events and ensnares various people in its plans, stating with the dispassion of the program that it is that they will die if they don't cooperate. More than mere terrorism, Sokol's program has...more

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Feb 16, 2009

John rated it

Cybernetic thrillers about the end of life as we know it aren’t a usual stop for me, and when I started this tale about a twisted genius inventor of computer games who happens to be dead and the havoc he wreaks on the living, I really wasn’t expecting to get beyond the first chapter. But Daniel Suarez knows his stuff, explains it deftly so that mind-boggling concepts don’t interrupt the action, and keeps you turning those damned pages (except when you just have to put the book down to chew on so...more

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Dec 15, 2011

Andre Farant rated it

A computer game designer dies and, upon the online publication of his obituary, a daemon—a computer program running in the background, under no human control—is activated, setting off a chain reaction that will lead to numerous deaths and, quite possibly, a new world order.

Daemon is an inventive techno-thriller, blending Michael Crichton with Neil Stephenson. The science feels real, grounded in possibility if not probability, and, in the second half of the novel, as events accelerate a...moreA computer game designer dies and, upon the online publication of his obituary, a daemon—a computer program running in the background, under no human control—is activated, setting off a chain reaction that will lead to numerous deaths and, quite possibly, a new world order.

Daemon is an inventive techno-thriller, blending Michael Crichton with Neil Stephenson. The science feels real, grounded in possibility if not probability, and, in the second half of the novel, as events accelerate and mass together like a careening snowball, Suarez takes us into the realm of cyber-punk as he geeks out on Net-enhanced villains and scimitar-wielding motorcycles.

Stylistically, Daemon is serviceable at best, but this works to the narrative's advantage given that an overwrought style would only take away from the rollicking plot and gleefully outlandish scenes. The characters are two-dimensional, fitting into familiar arch-types, but, like figures in a video game, they are all players in a fantastic new universe, servants of the plot, and meant to be little else. In fact, it is the daemon itself that propels the plot forward. The daemon is by far the most unpredictable element in the story and I wonder if it might not have even given Suarez himself a few surprises. It's such an original concept that I found myself caring less about the flesh-and-blood characters and more about this virulent program's next move—and, impossibly, the novel was actually all the more entertaining and satisfying for it.

It's said that, in a good story, the protagonist must have gone through a substantial change over the course of the narrative. Here, every character goes through changes that cannot even be guessed at when the book is first cracked open and the initial pages read. More importantly, it is the daemon, the plot's driving force—the plot itself—that changes, morphing with every chapter in unpredictable, exciting ways.

Daemon is not great literature but, with an unpretentious, easy and accessible style reminiscent of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, and the cyber-punk sensibilities of Neil Stephenson and William Gibson, Daemon should appeal to fans of both groups. This is a fun, easy read that might actually have you eyeing your PC with a new respect—or fear.
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Dec 03, 2011

Mike rated it

I met Suarez this summer, and had to read this book and its sequel, Freedom (TM). This isn't the sort of fiction I usually read. I'm really not big on thrillers, and I'm typically cool towards sci fi (though I see I've reviewed a lot of it here).

Daemon absolutely has to be read with Freedom (tm). The two are one sustained novel.

Just as Cory Doctorow's Little Brother was science fiction when it was written, but there's little in the book that couldn't happen now, Daemon ...more

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Oct 08, 2011

John E. Branch Jr. rated it

Shelves: sf, techno-thriller

As a part-time tech-head who has been working and playing with computers since the early 80s, I was intrigued by the book and genuinely fascinated here and there. As a one-time English major who has been reading serious fiction for a good deal longer, I was pretty nonplussed. I'm a little reluctant to take a superior attitude, but I might as well be honest (while trying not to be harsh): this is science fiction that's strong on the former and weak on the latter.

Daniel Suarez (see my ...moreAs a part-time tech-head who has been working and playing with computers since the early 80s, I was intrigued by the book and genuinely fascinated here and there. As a one-time English major who has been reading serious fiction for a good deal longer, I was pretty nonplussed. I'm a little reluctant to take a superior attitude, but I might as well be honest (while trying not to be harsh): this is science fiction that's strong on the former and weak on the latter.

Daniel Suarez (see my side note below) has a good grasp of MMORPGs, WiFi hacking, botnets, acoustic weapons, HUD goggles, and other aspects of gadgetology, and a much poorer grasp of the elements of fiction, which means, among other things, that there's hardly a developed human character in the book. That's not to say that he hasn't written a decent techno-thriller; insofar as keeping you turning the pages counts, he does that, and a fair amount more than that. He's got a pretty ingenious idea, and since realizing what it is is part of the fun of the book, I won't say more. But even within the limits of the techno-thriller, Suarez made some misjudgments, and I ceased to believe in it before the end. Nor is the end really a conclusion; if you stick it out as I did hoping for a resolution, you'll instead find yourself invited to stick around for a presumed sequel. Which I doubt I'll read, unless that book generates some blurbs that plausibly invoke, say, William Gibson, instead of Bruce Sterling, Tom Clancy, and Michael Crichton. Technical satisfactions you'll find here (as you will in Sterling, Clancy, and Crichton); aesthetic pleasure such as Gibson can provide is far from likely.

Side note: Apparently this book was originally self-published, with the author writing under the pseudonym Leinad Zeraus. It was bought (in the U.S. at least) by the Dutton imprint of Penguin Group and was published in January 2009 under the author's real name, Daniel Suarez. What I read in late 2008 was an advance, uncopyedited manuscript of the Dutton edition.(less)

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Aug 19, 2011

Terry rated it

Shelves: science-fiction, thriller, technology

Daemon tells the story of a program/set of programs activated after the death of a computer programmer. These programs at first seem to just cause the death of a few people but later the total scope of their power grows considerably. The book is heavy on the tech-talk and while the book explains a lot as it goes, the informed reader is well rewarded.

I found the book very fun to get through and is the closest I've come to a page-turner in a while. The author makes a few poignant obse...moreDaemon tells the story of a program/set of programs activated after the death of a computer programmer. These programs at first seem to just cause the death of a few people but later the total scope of their power grows considerably. The book is heavy on the tech-talk and while the book explains a lot as it goes, the informed reader is well rewarded.

I found the book very fun to get through and is the closest I've come to a page-turner in a while. The author makes a few poignant observations and the clash of the artificial organism of the Daemon vs. the artificial organism of the military-industrial complex (geh, I hate that phrase) is thought-provoking and almost plausible.

My only reservation is giving this book a five star review is that the writing, while excellent for a first time novelist, needs some polish and drama with science turns into science fiction in a few ways I find clumsy.

Writing:
+Well done descriptions of events and frequent but not excessive similes that paint a reasonable picture.
+Periodic gems like "rhyme and meter are cultural checksums".
-Overdone descriptions of physical actions. Things like combat are terribly difficult to portray in text and either stupid detail or broad strokes are necessary. Everything in between tends to falter.
-Some dialog is excessively tech-laden in ways that I think are inauthentic and seem to seek to just relay "techiness".
-Most of the book is reasonable in picking up things that are doable with current technology, some things (razorbacks) stretch credulity. This may be a device to let the author wipe away the fear that sometimes comes from "this could happen".

Plotting:
+The attentive reader is well rewarded. I kept feeling that I had figured something out which was then verified or disconfirmed within a chapter or two so nothing was ever too confusing for too long nor did I feel bored.
+Threads tied together nicely even though narrative shifts around a lot.
-The 3-letter agency scenes and Sobol's exposition seem heavy-handed at times. I think there's a lighter space between this and obscurantism.(less)

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Jul 13, 2011

Joe Miller rated it

Intriguing premise with a couple of interesting plot twists. Amazon describes this as a techno-thriller, but I think it's maybe more accurate to call it pre-cyberpunk. I say "pre" not because it predates cyberpunk (which it obviously doesn't) but rather because it shows a plausible(ish) path from somewhere very like here to a not-very-distant world of cyberjacked augmented reality.

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Jun 06, 2011

Dmdutcher rated it

Shelves: dystopia, thriller

Apparently this is first of a series. MMO and videogame magnate dies, but somehow works his will through outlandish technological means to implement some plan of collapsing/remaking society. People try with absolutely no success to stop him.

The problem with this book is that all the cards are held by the villains, to the point of absurdity. Literal absurdity, once they start pulling the Razorbacks in. The heroes exist only to be struck down, and while this might be good as a set-up, an...more

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Jan 28, 2011

Paul Pessolano rated it

In computer language, "Daemon" is a computer program that runs continuously in the background and performs specified operations at predefined times in response to certain events.

Matthew Sobol is a multi-millionaire who has earned his millions in the computer gaming business. He has set up a daemon program on his company's computers that is to react to his obituary.

The daemon sets in motion a series of events that causes the death of several of Sobol's co-worker...more

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Dec 17, 2010

Bryce rated it

An interesting read that took me a while to get into and left me feeling rather frustrated. Despite that, I enjoyed it. First, the frustration: this book is part 1 of a two book series. You won't see that anywhere on the cover, and it very much leaves off right in the middle of the action. I don't mind series, but I'd appreciate to know when I'm reading one, so that I don't expect an ending. (Although in this case, the "ending" is more just a convenient pause in the action, not a real ...more

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Dec 14, 2010

Jim rated it

Shelves: fiction, sci-fi

Fans of the likes of William Gibson and Neal Stephenson will find much to enjoy in this techno-thriller. And anyone paying attention to the recent Wikileaks story and the subsequent DDoS shenanigans of some of its supporters will quickly see how fiction can be very relevant to the real world at times. As for the book itself, inconsistent pacing and focus were really all that kept it from being a rare five-star for me.

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Oct 28, 2010

Chibineko rated it

Do you like techno thrillers? Does the idea of killer computers make your spine tingle? If so, then you'll probably like this book. Not only is it a techno thriller, but it tries very hard to sound authentic & (as far as I know) it succeeds.

The plot of this book is incredibly diverse, spanning multiple characters and places. In one spot you have a detective who is rather bitter about life, having had a child at a young age & married the mother out of obligation. In another you have ...more

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Aug 20, 2010

Jay Baron rated it

Being my first to-do once I got back into the reading game, I found Daemon to be an awesome example of a modern adventure. Every novel I'd read growing up either took place in some neutered village without a computer in sight, or a fantastical science fiction future where the technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Daemon takes place firmly in present day, and Suarez does an excellent job introducing the tech involved. He goes through great pains to ensure that anything that happe...more

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Jul 18, 2010

AudioBookFans rated it

I selected this audiobook based off of a recommendation from some guy on twitter. He was pretty pumped about this book so I looked it up and decided to give it a try. I found Daemon to be very intriguing right from the start with it’s unique usage of an intentionally “computer generated” type female voice that delivered news throughout the book.

This book was very tech savy. Not once did I have to sneer at the author’s limited knowledge of tech and internet related material. If anythi...more

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Jun 27, 2010

Margaret rated it

Shelves: mystery-suspense

Two points about this book - Thing One: While I filed this on my mystery / suspense shelf, I admit that this is Lazy Me b/c this book really needs a "starts out mystery, morphs to mystery / sci-fi, ends in sci-fi with a dash of political intrigue" shelf. That title being too long, I'm sticking w/ mystery / suspense. So those of you who, like me, think, ah, a lovely southern California who-dunnit police procedural based on the first few chapters will be quickly disappointed, b/c it ai...more

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May 11, 2010

Ian rated it

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Shelves: sci-fi, action, suspense

Thinking about how I've told people about this book, as "a geeky action flick of a book" doesn't really do it justice, although I can't really put it any more succinctly. The truth is that this is probably one of the best books I have ever read, and finishing it was extremely bittersweet because I really wanted to read more.

What Daemon does is mix suspense, action and technology into a story that is rich with heroes, villains and a surprisingly plausible plot about a compu...moreThinking about how I've told people about this book, as "a geeky action flick of a book" doesn't really do it justice, although I can't really put it any more succinctly. The truth is that this is probably one of the best books I have ever read, and finishing it was extremely bittersweet because I really wanted to read more.

What Daemon does is mix suspense, action and technology into a story that is rich with heroes, villains and a surprisingly plausible plot about a computer script taking over world corporations. Admittedly what kept me turning the pages was that a lot of the power for the computer script came from a videogame that in turn it used as a model to organize its operatives in a "dark net". The appeal to my "videogame addled" mine is an easy one, and I hesitate to say that this book would probably appeal most to the tech and videogame crowd rather than a more general audience.

That is unfortunate though because a lot of what makes this book so interesting is its plausibility and the fact that a lot of what is mentioned inside its pages shows just how affected by videogames and technology everyone on this planet really is. In a world where your credit, your medical information, and just about everything else about you is stored digitally, it doesn't really take much to show how vulnerable we all are to something that we understand very little about. Our entire identity is integrated in a shockingly dependent way on computers, the Internet and databases of institutions to we probably don't even know the names of. What's more, our government is increasingly dependent on those same systems as well. On top of all of that the people most capable of understanding this new system that we are all dependent on are the geeky kids who play a lot of video games.

To say that we hold the reins on such a dynamic and growing system shows how naïve we probably all are about the way this world is evolving. The idea that a daemon could possibly gain such a foot hold that it can control corporations, affect lives of everyday citizens within the bleak of an eye, and if necessary eliminate threats to its processes isn't that far-off a reality.

Fantastic book - hands down a must read, or listen in my case. In fact, I highly recommend checking out the audiobook version because the narration is top notch. Listening to Jeff Gurner perform the characters is almost like sitting down and watching a full cast act out the scenes in a blockbuster movie.(less)

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Apr 12, 2010

Matthew Raleigh rated it

If you liked Prey by Michael Crichton, you'll absolutely love this book. Suarez has created a new genre of Science Fiction that caters exclusively to the geek culture. He uses terms like DDOS, SIP, VOIP, SSID, WEP frequently without boring us with descriptions of what these mean. Non-geeks will put this one down immediately but true geeks will make the connections easily. That's true artistic courage in my opinion.
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Apr 07, 2010

Alex Taylor rated it

I finished Daemon a few days ago and it's really been sticking with me. It starts as a murder mystery and quickly spirals out into a much broader story about how our world is held together, or not. It warrants the comparisons to stuff by Neal Stephenson and William Gibson. Like these other authors the story centrally features technology without it just being about that technology. On a few occasions it reminded me elements of Spook Country and Cryptonomicon. Suarez is not as funny and discursive...more

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Mar 31, 2010

Xirxe rated it

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Shelves: verschenkte-bücher, thriller

Boah, was für ein Buch! Aber gleich vorweg: Leute, die mit IT nichts am Hut haben, Netzwerke für Ausrüstungsgegenstände von Fischern halten und die Faszination von Computerspielen nicht mal ansatzweise nachvollziehen können, sollten die Finger davon lassen.
Nun zum Inhalt: Mathew Sobol, milliardenschweres Computergenie, erliegt Anfang 30 einem Gehirntumor. Just in diesem Augenblick sterben auf mysteriöse Art und Weise Mitarbeiter seiner Firma und bald wird klar, dass Sobol dahinter steckt....moreBoah, was für ein Buch! Aber gleich vorweg: Leute, die mit IT nichts am Hut haben, Netzwerke für Ausrüstungsgegenstände von Fischern halten und die Faszination von Computerspielen nicht mal ansatzweise nachvollziehen können, sollten die Finger davon lassen.
Nun zum Inhalt: Mathew Sobol, milliardenschweres Computergenie, erliegt Anfang 30 einem Gehirntumor. Just in diesem Augenblick sterben auf mysteriöse Art und Weise Mitarbeiter seiner Firma und bald wird klar, dass Sobol dahinter steckt. Bei der Untersuchung der Morde erkennen die Ermittler, dass ein von Sobol programmiertes Programm (der Daemon) dafür verantwortlich ist, doch sie sind nicht in der Lage die wahren Dimensionen einzuschätzen. Detective Pete Sebeck beginnt gemeinsam mit einem undurchsichtigen IT-Consultant Untersuchungen auf eigene Faust durchzuführen und findet sich bald in einem Netz aus Anschuldigungen und Vorwürfen wieder, aus denen es kein Entrinnen zu geben scheint. Unterdessen baut der Daemon ein weltweit verzweigtes Netz auf: Er infiltriert Firmen, manipuliert die Presse, rekrutiert neue Mitstreiter und falls notwendig, lässt er dafür Menschen umbringen. Niemand scheint ihn stoppen zu können...
Was diesen Thriller so beklemmend macht, ist, dass das Szenario, so utopisch es auch klingen mag, auf der Grundlage der heutigen Möglichkeiten durchaus vorstellbar wäre. Die ganze Welt hängt an einem Netz und wer sich dessen bemächtigt, hat die Macht - nicht nur virtuell. Diese Erkenntnis setzt sich in Sobols Buch nur langsam durch, für die Befehlshaber der 'letzten Generation' sind Hacker nur Gesindel, das (Zitat) 'zusammengetrieben und erschossen gehört.' Es ist ein Kampf zweier Generationen: Die, die nur in der realen Welt zuhause ist und die, für die die virtuelle Welt längst eine echte Heimat darstellt.
Suarez zeigt auf, wo und was überall manipuliert werden kann, kaum etwas ist noch sicher vor Zugriffen aus dem Netz (da fällt mir ein: Ich brauch' unbedingt ein neues Virenprogramm..). Spannend und überraschend, selbst eine Mini-Liebesgeschichte hat es in die Story geschafft - ein wirklich packender Thriller.
Vier Punkte gibt es 'nur', da die Verwendung von IT-Begriffen manchmal extreme Ausmaße annimmt: 'Er wollte einen schnellen Exploit, der ihm eine Remote Shell auf den Host mit Sysadmin-Rechten lieferte.' Das Buch ist auch ohne Verständnis dieser Fachausdrücke gut zu verstehen, aber etwas weniger (oder zumindest ein Anhang) wäre doch deutlich mehr gewesen.(less)

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Mar 24, 2010

Les Brown rated it

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Reading Daemon felt like I was riding a roller coaster. My interest in the story went up and down and up and down. I loved how the book started out, it read like a computer thriller/myster and then it quickly dissolved into sci-fi.

My only real issue with the book was one I find quite often. The issue is with the sense that the protagonist never seems to make a mistake. It's always rerfect and has always thought of every contingent. It's plans always succeed and it never seems to enc...more

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Feb 27, 2010

John rated it

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About Daniel Suarez

Daniel Suarez is an independent systems consultant to Fortune 1000 companies. He has designed and developed enterprise software for the defense, finance, and entertainment industries. An avid gamer and technologist, he lives in Los Angeles, California.

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“Her new boss was an undead automaton from hell, true. But, no job is perfect.” — 15 people liked it

“In all, his outfit required nearly two thousand man-years of research and development, eight barrels of oil, and sixteen patent and trademark infringement lawsuits. All so he could possess casual style. A style that, in logistical requirements, was comparable to fielding a nineteenth-century military brigade.
But he looked good. Casual.” — 5 people liked it

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