The New York Times bestseller Daemon unleashed a terrifying technological vision of an
all-powerful malicious computer program. Now our world is the Daemon's world-unless someone
stops it once and for all... The Daemon is in absolute control using an expanded network of
shadowy operatives to tear apart civilization and build it anew. Even as civil war breaks out
in the American Midwest in a wave of nightmarish violence former detective Pete Sebeck-the
Daemon's most powerful though reluctant operative-must lead a small band of enlightened
humans in a movement designed to protect the new world order. But the private armies of global
business are preparing to crush the Daemon once and for all. In a world of shattered loyalties
collapsing societies and seemingly endless betrayal the only thing worth fighting for may be
nothing less than the freedom of all humankind.