Daemon

What do you get if William Gibson and Neal Stephenson had a love affair and decided to merge equal portions of their DNA in some not yet heard of pregnancy between two men type of experiment? You'd get Daniel Suarez writing the sci-fi, cyber-thriller, Daemon and following it up with Freedom, making a two part novel about a sentient computer program called "The Daemon". In this series, the Daemon's creator Matthew A. Sobol, dies from brain cancer and his computer daemon becomes triggered with a very primal goal: destroy anything that tries to get in its way. Detective Peter Sebeck is put on the case of two programmers deaths while working for CyberStorm Entertainment, a computer gaming group. A technology consultant, Jon Ross, assists Detective Sebeck in his investigation, but their investigation seems futile with the Daemon outsmarting Jon and the detective at every move. It invades and conquers masses of computers, including those that control driverless cars (AutoM8s) and electronic weapons (Razorbacks), and begins to destroy civilization, to rebuild it under the Daemon's control. Civil war breaks out in the Midwest. This novel is fast-paced, action-packed and crammed with interesting concepts. Suarez paints a terrifying and vivid future, engaging readers on an emotive level. If you're in the tech community, you enjoy thrillers, you're a gamer or a futurist, or even a literary lover, you will devour this novel. The Wall Street Journal reported that the producer of the 1983 War Games has the film rights to produce Daemon.