Full disclosure: I have absolutely no skin in the game on this one. No one sent me a free copy of the book, I don’t know Daniel Suarez and … well, you get the idea.

With that out of the way, I have to recommend Daemon as one of the best page-turners I’ve encountered in a long, long time … with one huge caveat: If you don’t know your MMORPG from your MS-DOS or your WAN from your LAN, then you should probably think twice about digging in.

But if the idea of a young Tom Clancy with techno-geek tendencies replacing the military-spook stuff sounds intriguing, then don’t miss this one. I’m not going to give anything away, except to say the premise is incredibly intriguing, Suarez gets his tech absolutely right (or if he’s blowing it anywhere I haven’t noticed) and Daemon is going to make one hell of an action thriller in a coupla years.

Thanks to “Podfather” Adam Curry for plugging Daemon several times on No Agenda — just one more reason to listen in on Crackpot and Buzzkill in the morning.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 12th, 2010 at 1:48 pm and is filed under Internet Stuff, This 'n' That.