Ross eventually deduces that the Daemon can anticipate their every move, seemingly one step ahead of anyone who tries to interfere with its operation. Unfortunately, traditional investigation methods are useless against Sobol's Daemon program. Jon Ross, a Russian hacker and identity thief, is questioned by the FBI and brought into the investigation by Sebeck. Joined by a fellow operative named Laney Price, Sebeck vanishes into America. However, Sebeck later awakens to learn that the Daemon faked his death and assigned him the task to prove that humanity deserves its freedom from the Daemon. Sebeck makes peace with his wife, who loves him despite the fact that Sebeck is having an affair, but his son Chris remains estranged, and he proclaims his innocence while dying from lethal injection. The US government, though knowing the truth, fasttracks Sebeck's trial and executes him eight months later. For being the first authority figure in the investigation, the Daemon selects Sebeck against his will to serve the Daemon, which frames Sebeck for its creation as a multi-million scheme and a hoax. However, when a connection is made between the two programmers and Cyberstorm, the FBI takes over led by Agent Decker. What follows is a series of interlocking stories following the main characters:ĭetective Pete Sebeck is called in to investigate the death of Pavlos. Daemon implements a kind of government by algorithm inside the community of its recruited operatives.

The Daemon also creates a secondary online web service, hidden from the general public, dubbed the Darknet, which allows Daemon operatives to exchange information freely. The program secretly takes over hundreds of companies and provides financial and computing resources for recruiting real world agents and creating AutoM8s ( computer controlled driverless cars, used as transport and occasionally as weapons), Razorbacks (sword-wielding robotic riderless motorcycles, specifically designed as weapons) and other devices.

The Daemon's first mission is to kill two programmers Joseph Pavlos and Chopra Singh who worked for CyberStorm Entertainment and unknowingly helped in the creation of the Daemon. The Daemon becomes his tool to achieve that vision. Sobol, dying of brain cancer, was fearful for humanity and began to envision a new world order. Sobol, a brilliant computer programmer and CTO of Cyberstorm Entertainment, a daemon is activated. Upon publication of the obituary for Matthew A. Daemon and Freedom™ comprise a two-part novel by the author Daniel Suarez about a distributed, persistent computer application, the Daemon, that begins to change the real world after the original programmer's death.

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