Nerd Reich

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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A fearless and urgent expose of technofascism - and a road map to resistance.

When Silicon Valley 'moves fast and breaks things', the world interprets the chaos as a necessary cost of innovation. Gil Duran reveals something far more sinister afoot: a decades-long campaign to replace elected governments with corporate rule.

Drawing on insider political experience and new investigations, Duran traces this ideology from its philosophical roots in The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg. He introduces its modern apostles - Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Balaji Srinivasan and Elon Musk - and shows how the promise of technological liberation has transformed into a global movement for digital feudalism, powered by cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence and algorithmically driven propaganda on social media.

The Nerd Reich explains the origins, strategies and ambitions of Silicon Valley's war on democracy for the first time. From San Francisco's weaponised elections and secret billionaire projects to the White House, Duran exposes how the world's richest men are building a new political order.

The Nerd Reich is more than a hidden history; it's an urgent warning: democracy is being dismantled, not by coups or tanks but by code, capital and the illusion of innovation. Duran insists there is still time to fight back - if we act now.

Gil Duran, New York Times bestseller, August 2026

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781398555938
Published: August 2026

Number of pages: 352
Width: 153 mm
Height: 234 mm
Depth: 22 mm

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd