I just discovered Daemon and author Daniel Suarez and I am hooked,
hooked, hooked.
From the look of the cover that promises us a high tech thriller to
the very last sentence, author Suarez delivers a hard punch - no
holds barred, wonderful technothriller that I could not put down
once I started (which is quite a feat since this book is a little
over 400 pages of thrill ride).
IT is everywhere today and the concept of computers taking over the
world is not new (think Terminator) however, Suarez writes about
this in an innovative way that gave me the creeps (but in a good
way). We find two of our characters Jon Ross and Peter Sebeck
entangled the Internet world -one trying to solve a murder and the
other trying to figure out how to solve a major virus issue at his
company. This will all be linked to the legacy of a IT gamer who
will trigger an IT world event.
I am trying not to give too many details as it is alot more fun to
read the story than to read my synopsis of it. Suarez manages to
take a subject that could be extremely dry and boring and weaves a
story that is completely believeable and quite scary. I kept
thinking that Sarah Connor was going to walk into the storyline at
any second.
This book has everything a "real" thriller needs and on top of all
of that, the story is entirely plausible, in my opinion.
I suggest you give yourself lots of free time when you first start
this book, as it will be very difficult to put down once you get
into it.