Daemon

Detective Peter Sebeck of Ventura County, California is racing to stop a wave of destruction that threatens permanently reshape the computer networks that make the modern world possible. Unfortunately, he has no way to apprehend the culprit: when prolific game-designer Matthew Sobol died and his obituary was posted on the internet, an automated program he'd tucked into the background of his many online games began a systematic takeover of communications networks all over the world. Originally self-published under the pseudonym Leinad Zeraus, this enthralling cyberthriller is rendered all the more terrifying by the fact that the technology to execute this kind of attack already exists.