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.

As one of those very rare double nerds (political philosopher who gave up the glamor of the professoriate to become a web geek) I found much of Daemon (and its sequel) to be most interesting as a thought experiment on the intersection of democracy and technology. The final resolution isn't what you might have expected, and the book is awash with shades of gray.

Perhaps most intriguing for me is the way that Suarez, whose political sensitivities appear to lie on the left side of the spectrum, ends up with a society not unlike one espoused by a fairly radical branch of libertarians.

First book is definitely better than the second, which veers a bit far into telling rather than showing.