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Signet
January 2010
On Sale: December 29, 2009
Featuring: Peter Sebeck
640 pages
ISBN: 0451228731
EAN: 9780451228734
Paperback (reprint)
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Thriller
When a designer of computer games dies, he leaves behind a program that unravels the Internet's interconnected world. It corrupts, kills, and runs independent of human control. It's up to Detective Peter Sebeck to wrest the world from the malevolent virtual enemy before its ultimate purpose is realized: to destroy civilization...
Daemon brings readers on a harrowing journey through the dark crawl spaces of the modern world. It's a cutting-edge high-tech thriller that explores the convergence of MMOG's, BotNets, viral ecosystems, and corporate dominanceβforces which are quietly reshaping society with very real consequences for us all. It all begins when one man's obituary appears online. . . Matthew Sobol was a legendary computer game designerβthe architect behind half a dozen popular online games. His premature death from brain cancer depressed both gamers and his companyβs stock price. But Sobolβs fans werenβt the only ones to note his passing. He left behind something that was scanning Internet obituaries, tooβsomething that put in motion a whole series of programs upon his death. Programs that moved money. Programs that recruited people. Programs that killed. Confronted with a killer from beyond the grave, Detective Peter Sebeck comes face-to-face with the full implications of our increasingly complex and interconnected worldβone where the dead can read headlines, steal identities, and carry out far-reaching plans without fear of retribution. Sebeck must find a way to stop Sobolβs web of programsβhis Daemonβbefore it achieves its ultimate purpose. And to do so, he must uncover what that purpose is . . .
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