Book Review

Daemon, by Leinad Zeraus

A classic detective story with a modern twist. A computer game designer has set loose an internet program, a Daemon. The program examines obituaries, boots up other programs scattered on servers all across the world. The programs can transfer funds between accounts; they react to events occuring on online news sites; they can hire people. People begin dying, and the clues lead back to this reclusive program quietly running through it's processes. A Detective begins sifting through the evidence, seeking to determine the goal of the program designer. The difficulty of catching the murderer is heightened by the fact that the author of the daemon program died months earlier. The Daemon program is leading to an ultimate that the detective must determine before more people die.