Daniel Suarez

Sie leben nicht. Aber sie töten. Blutiger Drohnenangriff auf eine Pilgerstätte im Irak. Ein weiterer Angriff trifft eine kalifornische Universität. Die Biologin Linda McKinney ahnt nichts davon: Sie erforscht gerade eine besonders aggressive Spezies afrikanischer Ameisen, als sie mitten im Dschungel gekidnappt wird. Ihr Entführer heißt Odin, und er hat ihr offenbar das Leben gerettet. Wer sind die Mächte, die Lindas Forschungen zur Schwarmintelligenz unterdrücken wollen? Während sich in den USA grauenhafte Bombardements häufen und in den hintersten Winkeln des Planeten Millionen fliegender Tötungsmaschinen vom Band laufen, macht sich das Team um Odin und McKinney daran, die Menschheit vor der Vernichtung durch ihren eigenen technologischen Fortschritt zu retten ...

The Daemon is now firmly in control and moving towards its endgame, using an expanding network of real-world, dispossessed darknet operatives to tear civilization apart and build it anew. As the global economy begins to fail, the worlds most powerful organizations monolithic corporations, complete with armies of their own prepare to fight their unseen enemy. When a brutal civil war breaks out in the United States, former detective Pete Sebeck, now the Daemons most powerful though reluctant operative, must lead a small band of enlightened humans to protect the new world order. Amid conflicting loyalties, rapidly diminishing human power and the possibility that anyone can be a daemon operative or a corporate spy, Sebeck knows that he embodies the last hope that freedom can survive the information revolution.

Doctor and author Robin Cook is widely credited with introducing the word "medical" to the thriller genre. Thirty-one years after the publication of his breakthrough novel, Coma, he continues to dominate the category he created, including his most recent bestseller, Foreign Body, which explores a growing trend of medical tourism--first-world citizens traveling to third-world countries for 21st-century surgery. Daemon is an ambitious novel, which sets out not only to entertain, which it surely does, but also to challenge the reader to consider social issues as broad as the implications of living in a technologically advanced world and whether democracy can survive in such a world. The storyline portrays one possible world consequent to the development of the technological innovations that we currently live with and the reality that the author, Suarez, imagines will evolve, and it is chilling and tense (on www.thedaemon.com the reader can find evidence that the seemingly incredible advances Suarez proposes could in fact become real). Daemon is filled with multiple scenes involving power displays by the Daemon''s allies resulting in complete loss of control by its enemies, violence with new and innovative weaponry, explosions, car crashes, blood, guts, and limbs-cut-off galore. As far as computer complexity, Daemon will satisfy any computer geek''s thirst. I was thankful for Pete Sebeck, the detective in the book whose average-person understanding of computers necessitates an occasional explanation about what is going on. I came away from the novel with a new understanding, respect, and fear of computer capability. In the end, Suarez invites the reader to enter the "second age of reason," to think about where recent and imminent advances in computer technology are taking us and whether we want to go there. For me, it is this "thinking" aspect of the novel which makes it a particularly fun, satisfying, and significant read.

Already an underground sensation, a high-tech thriller for the wireless age that explores the unthinkable consequences of a computer program running without human control-a daemon-designed to dismantle society and bring about a new world order Technology controls almost everything in our modern-day world, from remote entry on our cars to access to our homes, from the flight controls of our airplanes to the movements of the entire world economy. Thousands of autonomous computer programs, or daemons, make our networked world possible, running constantly in the background of our lives, trafficking e-mail, transferring money, and monitoring power grids. For the most part, daemons are benign, but the same can''t always be said for the people who design them. Matthew Sobol was a legendary computer game designer-the architect behind half-a-dozen popular online games. His premature death depressed both gamers and his company''s stock price. But Sobol''s fans aren''t the only ones to note his passing. When his obituary is posted online, a previously dormant daemon activates, initiating a chain of events intended to unravel the fabric of our hyper-efficient, interconnected world. With Sobol''s secrets buried along with him, and as new layers of his daemon are unleashed at every turn, it''s up to an unlikely alliance to decipher his intricate plans and wrest the world from the grasp of a nameless, faceless enemy-or learn to live in a society in which we are no longer in control. . . . Computer technology expert Daniel Suarez blends haunting high-tech realism with gripping suspense in an authentic, complex thriller in the tradition of Michael Crichton, Neal Stephenson,and William Gibson.

New York Times bestselling author Daniel Suarez delivers an exhilarating sci-fi thriller exploring a potential future where CRISPR genetic editing allows the human species to control evolution itself. On a crowded train platform, Interpol agent Kenneth Durand feels the sting of a needle—and his transformation begins... In 2045 Kenneth Durand leads Interpol's most effective team against genetic crime, hunting down black market labs that perform "vanity edits" on human embryos for a price. These illegal procedures augment embryos in ways that are rapidly accelerating human evolution—preying on human-trafficking victims to experiment and advance their technology. With the worlds of genetic crime and human trafficking converging, Durand and his fellow Interpol agents discover that one figure looms behind it all: Marcus Demang Wyckes, leader of a powerful and sophisticated cartel known as the Huli jing. But the Huli jing have identified Durand, too. After being forcibly dosed with a radical new change agent, Durand wakes from a coma weeks later to find he's been genetically transformed into someone else—his most wanted suspect: Wyckes. Now a fugitive, pursued through the genetic underworld by his former colleagues and the police, Durand is determined to restore his original DNA by locating the source of the mysterious—and highly valuable—change agent. But Durand hasn't anticipated just how difficult locating his enemy will be. With the technology to genetically edit the living, Wyckes and his Huli jing could be anyone and everyone—and they have plans to undermine identity itself. From the Hardcover edition

Han pasado dos años desde que la muerte del diseñador de videojuegos Matthew Sobol provocara una crisis sin precedentes a partir de la acción en cadena de miles de daemons. Aunque el gobierno de Estados Unidos consiguio; ocultar la conspiracion, esta no ha hecho mas que crecer y ahora cuenta con un elemento humano, rebeldes coordinados por la red darknet y dotados de los mas avanzados gadgets tecnologicos. Acusado injustamente del asesinato de varios de sus compañeros, el detective Pete Sebeck fue condenado a muerte. Pero darknet tiene otros planes para el y, tras sobrevivir a la ejecucion, Sebeck viaja al corazon agricola del pais, donde esta; a punto de desencadenarse una nueva guerra civil.En la segunda parte del fenomeno Daemon, Daniel Suarez presenta el enfrentamiento final entre las corporaciones que exprimen un sistema economico agotado y una revolucion tecnologica que no teme el derramamiento de sangre.

Han pasado dos años desde que la muerte del diseñador de videojuegos Matthew Sobol provocara una crisis sin precedentes a partir de la acción en cadena de miles de daemons. Aunque el gobierno de Estados Unidos consiguio ocultar la conspiracion, esta no ha hecho mas que crecer y ahora cuenta con un elemento humano, rebeldes coordinados por la red darknet y dotados de los mas avanzados gadgets tecnologicos. Acusado injustamente del asesinato de varios de sus compañeros, el detective Pete Sebeck fue condenado a muerte. Pero darknet tiene otros planes para el y, tras sobrevivir a la ejecucion, Sebeck viaja al corazon agricola del pais, donde esta a punto de desencadenarse una nueva guerra civil.En la segunda parte del fenomeno Daemon, Daniel Suarez presenta el enfrentamiento final entre las corporaciones que exprimen un sistema economico agotado y una revolucion tecnologica que no teme el derramamiento de sangre.

Change is dangerous, technology lethal. So what if our civilization is more advanced than we know?Particle physicist Jon Grady is ecstatic when his team achieves a major breakthrough: a device that can reflect gravity. Their research will revolutionise the field of physics. But at Gradys moment of triumph, his lab is locked down by a shadowy organisation whose mission is to prevent the social upheaval caused by sudden technological advances - advances they use to retain total command. They are living in the future we were promised.Now Grady finds himself in a nightmarish high-tech prison built to hold other rebellious geniuses. Can he and his fellow prisoners escape? And even if they can, is it possible to defeat an enemy that wields a technological advantage half a century in the making?The dark ages are ending. Our future is here...

The bestselling author of Daemon returns with a near-future technological thriller, in which a charismatic billionaire recruits a team of adventurers to launch the first deep space mining operation--a mission that could alter the trajectory of human civilization. When itinerant cave diver James Tighe receives an invitation to billionaire Nathan Joyces private island, he thinks it must be a mistake. But Tighes unique skill set makes him a prime candidate for Joyces high-risk venture to mine a near-earth asteroid--with the goal of kick-starting an entire off-world economy. The potential rewards and personal risks are staggering, but the competition is fierce and the stakes couldnt be higher. Isolated and pushed beyond their breaking points, Tighe and his fellow twenty-first century adventurers--ex-soldiers, former astronauts, BASE jumpers, and mountain climbers--must rely on each other to survive not only the dangers of a multi-year expedition but the harsh realities of business in space. Theyre determined to transform humanity from an Earth-bound species to a space-faring one--or die trying.

Matthew Sobol era un legendario diseñador de juegos de ordenador. Su prematura muerte deja desconsolados a miles de aficionados en todo el mundo. Pero esa muerte, además, pone en acción a un daemon, un programa cibernetico autonomo, que inicia una cadena de acontecimientos que amenazan con acabar con el mundo interconectado que nos rodea.Ahora Sobol se ha ido a la tumba con sus secretos, y nadie sabe como parar las capas y capas de daemons que se van activando, dejando una estela de muerte y destruccion por doquier. Un hacker de sordido pasado, un policia acusado injustamente y una agente del FBI intentaran formar una improbable alianza para detenerlos.Tanto una trepidante novela de accion como una poderosa denuncia sobre nuestro sometimiento a la tecnologia, Daemon, publicada originalmente por su autor, se convirtio en un suceso de ventas en los Estados Unidos."Daemon es la realidad". -Craig Newmark, fundador de craiglist."Atrapante". -Publishers Weekly.Quiza la primera novela de cyber-suspense.

Matthew Sobol era un legendario diseñador de juegos de ordenador. Su prematura muerte deja desconsolados a miles de aficionados en todo el mundo. Pero esa muerte, además, pone en acción a un daemon, un programa cibernetico autonomo, que inicia una cadena de acontecimientos que amenazan con acabar con el mundo interconectado que nos rodea. Ahora Sobol se ha ido a la tumba con sus secretos, y nadie sabe como parar las capas y capas de daemons que se van activando, dejando una estela de muerte y destruccion por doquier. Un hacker de sordido pasado, un policia acusado injustamente y una agente del FBI intentaran formar una improbable alianza para detenerlos.Tanto una trepidante novela de accion como una poderosa denuncia sobre nuestro sometimiento a la tecnologia, Daemon, publicada originalmente por su autor, se convirtio en un suceso de ventas en los Estados Unidos."Daemon es la realidad". Craig Newmark, fundador de craiglist. "Atrapante". Publishers Weekly.Quiza la primera novela de cyber-suspense.

Daniel Suarezs New York Times bestselling debut high-tech thriller is so frightening even the government has taken note (Entertainment Weekly).Daemons: computer programs that silently run in the background, waiting for a specific event or time to execute. They power almost every service. They make our networked world possible. But they also make it vulnerable... When the obituary of legendary computer game architect Matthew Sobol appears online, a previously dormant daemon activates, initiating a chain of events that begins to unravel our interconnected world. This daemon reads news headlines, recruits human followers, and orders assassinations. With Sobols secrets buried with him, and as new layers of his daemon are unleashed, its up to Detective Peter Sebeck to stop a self-replicating virtual killer before it achieves its ultimate purposeone that goes far beyond anything Sebeck could have imagined...

The New York Times bestseller Daemon unleashed a terrifying technological vision of an all-powerful, malicious computer program. Now, our world is the Daemons worldunless someone stops it once and for all...The Daemon is in absolute control, using an expanded network of shadowy operatives to tear apart civilization and build it anew. Even as civil war breaks out in the American Midwest in a wave of nightmarish violence, former detective Pete Sebeckthe Daemons most powerful, though reluctant, operativemust lead a small band of enlightened humans in a 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 shattered loyalties, collapsing societies, and seemingly endless betrayal, the only thing worth fighting for may be nothing less than the freedom of all humankind.

In New York Times bestselling author Daniel Suarezs latest space-tech thriller, a group of pioneering astropreneurs must overcome never-before-attempted engineering challenges to rescue colleagues stranded at a distant asteroidkicking off a new space race in which Earths climate crisis could well hang in the balance. When unforeseen circumstances during an innovativeand unsanctionedcommercial asteroid-mining mission leave two crew members stranded, those who make it back must engineer a rescue, all while navigating a shifting web of global political alliances and renewed Cold War tensions. With Earth governments consumed by the ravages of climate change and unable to take the risks necessary to make rapid progress in space, the crew must build their own nextgen spacecraft capable of mounting a rescue in time for the asteroids next swing by Earth. In the process theyll need to establish the first spin-gravity station in deep space, the first orbiting solar power satellite and refinery, and historic infrastructure on the moons surfaceall of which could alleviate a deepening ecological, political, and economic crisis back on Earth, and prove that space-based industry is not only profitable, but possibly humanitys best hope for a livable, peaceful future.

Human freedom has one last hope to survive the information revolution in the epic, apocalyptic sequel to the international bestseller Daemon.The Daemon - a lethal computer program created by a twisted genius - is firmly in control and moving towards its endgame. As the global economy begins to collapse, the worlds most powerful organizations - monolithic corporations, complete with armies of their own - prepare to fight their unseen enemy.When civil conflict erupts in the United States, former detective Pete Sebeck finds himself forced to protect the new world order. Amid conflicting loyalties, rapidly diminishing human power and the possibility that anyone can be a daemon operative or a corporate spy, Sebeck knows that he embodies the last hope that freedom can survive the information revolution.

A scientist and a soldier must join forces when combat drones zero in on targets on American soil in this gripping technological thriller from New York Times bestselling author Daniel Suarez.Linda McKinney studies the social behavior of insectswhich leaves her entirely unprepared for the day her research is conscripted to help run an unmanned and automated drone army.Odin is the secretive Special Ops soldier with a unique insight into a faceless enemy who has begun to attack the American homeland with drones programmed to seek, identify, and execute targets without human intervention.Together, McKinney and Odin must slow this advance long enough for the world to recognize its destructive power. But as enigmatic forces press the advantage, and death rains down from above, it may already be too late to save mankind from destruction.