Suarez, Daniel

"Physicist Jon Grady and his team have discovered a device that can reflect gravity -- a triumph that will revolutionize the field of physics and change the future. But instead of Grady getting acclaim, his lab is locked down by a cover organization known as the Bureau of Technology Control. The bureau's mission: Suppress the truth of sudden technological progress and prevent the social upheaval it would trigger. Because the future is already here. And its rewards are only for a select few. When Grady refuses to join the BTC, he's thrown into a nightmarish high-tech prison housing other doomed rebel intellectuals. Now, as the only hope to usher humanity out of its artificial dark age, Grady and his fellow prisoners must try to expose the secrets of an unimaginable enemy -- one who wields a technological advantage a half century in the making."--From the back cover.

In this sequel to "Daemon," Daemon is close to controlling the world and civil war erupts in the American Midwest. Pete Sebeck, Daemon operative, leads a group of people in a populist attempt to protect the new world order. NSA agent Natalie Philips, hacker Jon Ross, and darknet master Loki are caught up in democracy's last stand.

When the obituary of computer game designer Matthew Sobol is posted online, it activates a previously dormant autonomous computer program known as a "daemon." As the daemon unleashes its capabilities and begins to destroy the interconnected order of the modern technological world, a special task force is created to locate and destroy this faceless threat before it creates an entirely new world order.