Daniel Suarez’s NYC Occasions bestselling debut high-tech thriller is “thus frightening even the government has taken notice” (Entertainment Regular).

Daemons: computer applications that silently run in the backdrop, waiting for a specific event or time to execute. They power almost every program. They make our networked globe possible. However they also make it susceptible…

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 globe. This daemon reads news headlines, recruits individual followers, and purchases assassinations. With Sobol’s secrets buried with him, and as brand-new levels of his daemon are unleashed, it’s up to Detective Peter Sebeck to avoid a self-replicating virtual killer before it achieves its best purpose-one that will go significantly beyond anything Sebeck could possess imagined…