The propulsive, shockingly plausible sequel to NY Times bestseller Daemon.

In one of the most buzzed-about debuts, Daniel Suarez presented a terrifying vision of a fresh world order, managed from the Daemon, an insidious pc program unleashed by a hi-tech wunderkind, Daemon captured the interest of the tech community, became a New York Moments and Indie bestseller, and still left readers hungry for more.

Well, more is here, and it’s even more gripping than its predecessor. In the starting about Freedom (TM) chapters of Independence(tm), the Daemon is normally firmly in control, using an expanded network of real-world, dispossessed darknet operatives to rip aside civilization and rebuild it anew. Shortly civil war breaks out in the American Midwest, inside a brutal wave of violence that becomes known as the Corn Rebellion. Former detective Pete Sebeck, right now the Daemon’s most powerful–though reluctant–operative, must lead a small music group of enlightened humans toward a populist movement designed to safeguard the new globe order. But the private armies of global business are preparing to crush the Daemon once and for all.

In an environment of conflicted loyalties, rapidly diminishing human power, and the chance that anyone could be a spy, what’s at stake is nothing less than human freedom’s last desire to survive the technology revolution.