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From the author of The Double Game (one of NPR's Best Books of 2012): a viscerally and psychologically gripping novel about drone warfare and about one pilot, attempting to stop its abuses and slamming up against the 21st century manifestation of the industrial military complex. Dan Fesperman's travels as a writer have taken him to thirty countries and three war zones. Lie in the Dark won the Crime Writers' Association of Britain's John Creasey Memorial Dagger Award for best first crime novel, The Small Boat of Great Sorrows won their Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for best thriller, and The Prisoner of Guantanamo won the Dashiell Hammett Award from the International Association of Crime Writers. He lives in Baltimore.
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 30, 2014
      At the outset of this timely thriller, Capt. Darwin Cole, a Predator drone pilot comfortably ensconced at Nevada’s Creech Air Force Base, discovers too late that children have entered his target area in eastern Afghanistan. The missile strike leaves two children dead, and Cole, devastated, spends a year in self-abnegating seclusion in the Nevada desert. Journalist Keira Lyttle finds Cole and persuades him to help her and two of her colleagues investigate the high-level misuse of government drones by a rogue CIA officer. As Cole and the reporters follow a trail through ex-CIA agents, intelligence contractors, and military technocrats, Fesperman (The Double Game) delineates the capabilities of modern drone aircraft in details that evoke wonder as well as chills at their disturbing implications for personal privacy. Though the characters never completely gel and the action sags in places, the technical information will keep readers turning the pages up to the rousing conclusion. Agent: Jane Chelius, Jane Chelius Literary Agency.

    • Library Journal

      December 1, 2014

      Fesperman's (The Double Game) latest enjoyable thriller is concerned with the use of surveillance and attack drones in U.S. combat operations. Former F-16 fighter pilot Darwin Cole is transitioned to flying drones and becomes so psychologically troubled by collateral damage from a botched mission that he leaves the air force. Lured from his hermit-like existence by a trio of journalists looking to write a book about a rogue intelligence operative thought to have targeted civilians on many missions of questionable military value, Cole commits to helping them unmask the unknown man behind Cole's last outing. Well-done depictions of drone technology and descriptions of the Chesapeake Bay area will encourage listeners to overlook some stereotypical characters and overly clever solutions to plot dilemmas. VERDICT This novel is excellently narrated by Armand Schultz and is recommended for inclusion in adult audio collections. ["A paranoia-inducing page-turner, and there's even a romance angle if you need one.... Essential for fans of Child and like authors," read the starred review of the Knopf hc, LJ 8/14.]--Cliff Glaviano, formerly with Bowling Green State Univ. Libs., OH

      Copyright 2014 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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