After reading this book, I feel like I should put on a kilt, paint my face blue and stand in front of the corporate headquarters where I work. Then, waving my laptop over my head and doing my best Mel Gibson impersonation (without the anti-Semitism), I'll shout, "You may take away our financial independence, our self-supporting communities and our personal privacy, but you'll never take our FREEDOM!" 
 Too much? 
 Moving on.... This is a techno-thriller, but like the previous book Daemon, it's a pretty damn ambitious techno-thriller. Daemon set the stage and now Freedom (tm) delivers the goods. 
 Previously, a very wealthy computer guru known for the intricate games he devised named Matthew Sobol had died of cancer. But he left behind the Daemon, a computer program that works as a blueprint and recruiting tool for an economic and political revolution. Sobol was convinced that worldwide corporate corruption had reached a point where people were in danger of being nothing but puppets forever. 
 By using the Daemon to seize the high ground on the internet, Sobol posthumously declared war on the existing forms of politics and finance. The Daemon also uses a virtual version of the Internet called the darknet to hook it's operatives into a web overlay of the real world via HUD glasses and other biometric interfaces. 
 After deliberately escalating the existing economic crisis, the Daemon uses the rules of on-line gaming and internet social media to begin creating a new society and economic model. And it uses high tech weaponry and willing operatives to defend the fledging darknet communities. 
 A corporate shadow government doesn't just want to destroy the Daemon and the darknet operatives, it wants to use the crisis the Daemon has created as an excuse to expand their power and influence to the point where traditional governments will be completely toothless. They use the mass media outlets to spin the story that the darknet communities are terrorists and using that as an excuse, unleash Blackwater-style private armies. 
 The plot could come across as B-movie-ish, but Suarez manages to make even the more outlandish stuff sound reasonable, and he makes a lot of intriguing points about the current economic structure in areas like corporate farming. 
 One of the cooler ideas is that on-line gaming rules and rating systems could be the basis for a new society. It's sounds crazy, but Suarez makes an interesting argument that it could work. What if every person you dealt with had a visible ratings score based on their interactions with other people? Or if enough people instantly voted on a project being important, the group resources were allocated accordingly? 
 And I like that Suarez doesn't paint this as an instant utopia. The Daemon is definitely breaking a whole lot of eggs to make this omelet and some of it's operatives are in danger of gaining far too much power, even within the rules of the system. 
 A lively read with plenty of action and enough big ideas to make you think, I enjoyed this quite a bit. For anyone interested, I'd definitely read Daemon first.