Daemon

Daniel Suarez’s book, “Daemon”, just released December 29th, 2009 is a great read. I picked it up in an airport over the weekend and couldn’t put it down. I’m not an avid recreational reader. I only pick up a work of fiction about every three months or so. Sometimes I start on a book and lose interest, but this one had me ensnared from beginning to end!

Don’t you hate it when you’re following along in a movie, tv show, book, whatever — and something goofy happens that yanks you right out of the story. They find some random object and instantly know who the killer is, or they get an email and they track it right back to some phone and have the GPS location and then a live satellite feed looking at the sender five seconds later. It snaps you back to reality. It’s the worst when it happens in a crime drama or thriller. Hey look, there’s some steganographic clue hidden in this iphone - kapow! we’ve got our killer.

Well this novel doesn’t do that! It gets it right. And if you can’t follow all the infosec techno babel word-for-word, no worries mate, there’s always a non-technical character involved who gets just enough explanation to follow along.

The gaming action and real life (within the book) action go hand in hand. The play-by-play of the cop entering the MMORPG world was great. I’m an avid gamer and technology fan, and this just became my favorite novel of all time! of all time!

http://thedaemon.com/

After reading the book, I had to find out about the authors background. I’ve never seen an author, screenplay writer, or director get it right like this guy has. And he doesn’t just throw it in there to show he knows his stuff — the technology is interwoven and crucial to the storyline.

http://thedaemon.com/aboutauthor.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Suarez

Daniel Suarez is an IT consultant turned author. His work was originally self-published by his own company, Verdugo Press, in 2006 under the name Leinad Zeraus. (his names, backwards. nice)