Fascinating premise, average plot, terrible execution and ending. Suarez clearly did lots of work trying to get the tech realistic but then he goes into way more detail than necessary showing that off. His characters are almost entirely tough-talking men (there are exactly two female characters who get to "speak" in the entire book and they're terribly stereotyped and wooden). Here's an example of the writing: "She was a sexual hand grenade with the pin pulled out." Gag. And I am so, so tired of reading books consisting of an endless series of viewpoints of almost-identical pseudo-macho males talking and acting like they're wanna-be gritty film noir heroes.

The premise is interesting: billionaire computer genius dies, leaving behind a daemon program to carry out his mysterious agenda for changing the world after his death. Good cop, white hat hacker, and a handful of others race to find and stop the daemon, fighting against the general technical ignorance of the public and the desire of the government to cover everything up. Interesting in theory and the first half of the book wasn't bad overall, but the ending is a let down. Nothing is resolved, good guys and bad guys are seemingly totally arbitrarily massacred, maimed, or rewarded, and you're left wondering what exactly happened or why in the end.