Kill Decision

The shocking techno-thriller that cements Daniel Suarez's status as the heir to Michael Crichton
and Tom Clancy-a terrifying, breathtaking, and all-too-plausible vision of the world's near future.

Unmanned weaponized drones already exist-they're widely used by America in our
war efforts in the Middle East. In Kill Decision, bestselling author Daniel Suarez takes
that fact and the real science behind it one step further, with frightening results.
Linda McKinney is a myrmecologist, a scientist who studies the social structure of
ants. Her academic career has left her entirely unprepared for the day her sophisticated
research is conscripted by unknown forces to help run an unmanned-and thanks
to her research, automated-drone army. Odin is the secretive Special Ops soldier
with a unique insight into the faceless enemy who has begun to attack the American
homeland with drones programmed to seek, identify, and execute targets without
human intervention.

Together, McKinney and Odin must slow this advance long enough for the world
to recognize its destructive power, because for thousands of years the "kill decision"
during battle has remained in the hands of humans-and off-loading that responsibility
to machines will bring unintended, possibly irreversible, consequences. But as forces
even McKinney and Odin don't understand begin to gather, and death rains down from
above, it may already be too late to save humankind from destruction at the hands of
our own technology.

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