Unmanned: A novel
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From the widely acclaimed author of The Prisoner of Guantánamo and The Double Game, an electrifying, timely, psychologically gripping descent into the hidden, expanding world of drone warfare. Not very long ago, Darwin Cole was an F-16 fighter pilot. He was a family man. He was on top of the world. Now? He's a washout drunk with a dishonorable discharge from the U.S. Air Force, living alone in the Nevada desert and haunted by an image beamed from one of his last missions as a "pilot" of a Predator drone--a harrowing shot of an Afghan child running for her life. When Cole is approached by three journalists trying to uncover the identity of the possibly rogue intelligence operative who called the shots in Cole's ill-fated mission, Cole reluctantly agrees to team up with them. But in our surveillance culture, even the well intentioned are liable to find themselves under scrutiny, running for their lives, especially when the trail they're following leads to the very heart of that culture--in intelligence, in the military, and among the unchecked private contractors who stand to profit richly from the advancing technology . . . not merely for use "over there," but for right here, right now.
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9780385351256
9780385351263
9780385351263
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Grouping Title | unmanned |
Grouping Author | fesperman dan |
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Last Grouping Update | 2019-02-15 23:13:35PM |
Last Indexed | 2019-02-16 00:22:18AM |
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display_description | "A psychologically gripping descent into the eerie realm of drone warfare, led by one pilot's risky quest to expose its darkest secrets. As an F-16 fighter pilot, Darwin Cole was a family man on top of his world. Now he's a washout-drunk and alone in a trailer in the Nevada desert, and haunted by what he saw on the display of the Predator drone he "piloted," especially by the memory of an Afghan child running for her life. He reluctantly teams up with three journalists seeking to discover the identity of the anonymous-and possibly rogue-intelligence operative who called the shots in Cole's ill-fated drone mission. But in a surveillance culture, even the well-intentioned must sometimes run for their lives, especially when they're tracking leads to the very heart of that culture-in intelligence, in the military, and among the unchecked private contractors who stand to profit richly from the advancing technology...technology not just for use "over there," but for right here, right now"-- | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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publishDate | 2014 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
record_details | ils:CARL0000440533|Book|Books|First edition.|English|Alfred A. Knopf,|2014.|315 pages ; 25 cm., overdrive:401ccaba-c850-47b8-bc90-5f01055831b6|eBook|eBook||English|Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group|2014| | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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subject_facet | Drone aircraft pilots -- Fiction, Fighter pilots -- Fiction, Military intelligence -- Fiction, Suspense fiction, American | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_display | Unmanned | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_full | Unmanned / Dan Fesperman, Unmanned A novel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_short | Unmanned | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_sub | A novel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
topic_facet | Drone aircraft pilots, Fiction, Fighter pilots, Literature, Military intelligence, Suspense fiction, American, Thriller |