Daemon is a techno-thriller in the vein of Michael Crichton (i.e., fast-paced with minimal character development), but it has the distinction that nearly all of its technobabble is firmly rooted in today's reality. Suarez truly knows hacking, and this novel succeeds infinitely more-so than, for example, The Blue Nowhere.

I was a little bit disappointed that Daemon turns out to be the beginning of a series rather than a standalone novel. The ending is not completely satisfying, but it works better as a standalone than many.