Freedom by Daniel Suarez
The only comfort we have that the US military is nothing like its portrayal in Daemon is that Suarez was still alive and at liberty to write the sequel - in which it gets worse. A very worthy continuation of the fantastic Daemon story, with the occasional hole or typo (worst author for uncaught typos I've ever read). As with the first book, it's good to read someone who knows exactly what they're talking about when they invoke technology, but doesn't show off.
I was initially uncomfortable with the big paradigm shift at the start, which picks up immediately where the previous novel left off, but the action soon took over and I didn't mind one bit. The lead character of Sebeck develops a long way from his state at the opening of Daemon, but the development feels real and right. Suarez certainly hasn't run out of ideas for the direction the world is heading in, the plans of Matthew Sobol or the technological fantasies required to enable them. Every bit as gripping as the first.
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