Daemon
Science Fiction
Penguin
2009
632
When the obituary of Matthew Sobol, a legendary architect of computer games, is posted online, a previously dormant daemon activates, initiating a chain of events that unravels our interconnected world. It recruits, corrupts, and kills. With Sobol's secrets buried with him, and as new layers of his daemon are unleashed, it's up to Detective Peter Sebeck to wrest the world from the grasp of a malevolent, self-replicating virtual enemy before its ultimate, terrifying purpose is realized: to destroy civilization. So far, Daemon is winning.
Daemon was an exciting book, with some plausible technology. The various characters in the book are great, but I would call it more of a plot-driven story rather than a character-driven story. Being a software engineer, I related to several of the tech-oriented characters, and I loved that all of the technology, hacks, and even the distributed Daemon are technically feasible (although not likely within the next 10 years). I can’t wait to read the second book in the series.