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Last June I posted my thoughts on a bood, Daemon by Daniel Suarez, a book which is about the revolutionary decisions made by a made a sick (as in ill, dying) computer programmer, Matthew Sobol, whom has made this daemon which upon his death begins terrorizing business and people.  The book is reasonably computer savvy and talks about up-to-the-moment computer security issues, most controversially SQL injections.  The technology in that book was reasonable, however somehow distant given it’s ease and lack of failure.

In this book, Freedom, the daemon continues, and in this (final) part of the story we see that the daemon has advanced from a niche terror to a social network which is almost entirely powered by the people on the “darknet.”

I started reading this book on January 7, the day it was first available on Kindle, and finished in less than 72 hours later, on Sunday night.  I enjoyed the whole story, and will now go back to read the whole series again, probably next semester for english, knowing how it ends.  If you want to know more you can check out this Google TechTalk with Daniel Suarez (Author) and the author’s site, thedaemon.com.

Freedom is available on:

• Audible for $27.97, $19.58 for members, or 1 credit.  (BTW, using the same great narrator as in Daemon!)
• Amazon Kindle for $16.82
• Amazon hardcover for $17.72
• Chapters (hardcover) for $22.10
• Kobo for $18.29

More information from The Publisher (from Chapters)

The propulsive, shockingly plausible sequel to “New York Times” bestseller “Daemon,” the “Greatest. Techno-thriller. Period.”*
*William O’Brien, former director of cybersecurity and communications systems policy at the White House
2009 saw one of the most inventive techno-thriller debuts in decades as Daniel Suarez introduced his terrifying and tantalizing vision of a new world order. “Daemon” captured the attention of the tech community, became a national bestseller, garnered attention from futurists, literary critics, and the halls of government-leaving readers clamoring for the conclusion to Suarez’s epic story.
In the opening chapters of “Freedom(tm),” the Daemon is well on its way toward firm control of the modern world, using an expanded network of real-world, dispossessed darknet operatives to tear apart civilization and rebuild it anew. Civil war breaks out in the American Midwest, with the mainstream media stoking public fear in the face of this ‘Corn Rebellion’. Former detective Pete Sebeck, now the Daemon’s most famous and most reluctant operative, must lead a small band of enlightened humans in a populist movement designed to protect the new world order.
But the private armies of global business are preparing to crush the Daemon once and for all. In a world of conflicted loyalties, rapidly diminishing government control, and a new choice between free will and the continuing comforts of ignorance, the stakes could not be higher: hanging in the balance is nothing less than democracy’s last hope to survive the technology revolution.