Freedom (TM) Audiobook (Free)
- Jeff Gurner
- Penguin Audio
- 2010-01-07
Summary:
The propulsive, shockingly plausible sequel to New York Times bestseller Daemon.
In one of one of the most buzzed-about debuts, Daniel Suarez launched a terrifying vision of a new world order, managed from the Daemon, an insidious pc program unleashed by a hi-tech wunderkind, Daemon captured the attention of the technology community, became a fresh York Times and Indie bestseller, and still left readers hungry for more.
Well, more is here, and it’s even more gripping than its predecessor. In the opening about Freedom (TM) chapters of Freedom(tm), the Daemon is firmly in control, using an expanded network of real-world, dispossessed darknet operatives to rip apart civilization and restore it anew. Soon civil battle breaks out in the American Midwest, within a brutal wave of violence that becomes known as the Corn Rebellion. Former detective Pete Sebeck, now the Daemon’s most powerful–though reluctant–operative, must lead a small music group of enlightened human beings toward a populist movement designed to protect the new globe order. However the personal armies of global business are getting ready to crush the Daemon once and for all.
In an environment of conflicted loyalties, quickly diminishing human power, and the possibility that anyone can be a spy, what’s at stake is nothing significantly less than human freedom’s last desire to endure the technology revolution.
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