Daemon by Daniel Suarez
My rating: 1 of 5 stars
The blurb on the cover says Suarez is “A legitimate heir to Michael Crichton.” That’s an insult to Crichton. I only made it 40% through this book because I couldn’t stomach all the sadism and long graphic descriptions of cruelty. One of the first scenes is a drawn out description of what can only be described as child sexual exploitation. The author seems to really enjoy describing it. I was disgusted, but pushed past it hoping that was just intended as an exciting hook and a depiction of how bad the bad guys were, but things just got worse so I stopped. When he’s not writing something offensive, the author blathers on about network protocols and hacking methods that 99.99% of the reading public won’t understand. It’s nothing but a boring ego trip.