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Kill Decision Hardback - 2012

by Daniel Suarez

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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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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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  • Title Kill Decision
  • Author Daniel Suarez
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 390
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Dutton Books, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2012-07-19
  • ISBN 9780525952619 / 0525952616
  • Weight 1.33 lbs (0.60 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.38 x 1.27 in (23.62 x 16.21 x 3.23 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Category Fiction - Espionage / Thriller
  • Library of Congress subjects United States, Suspense fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2011052061
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Freedom™ crackles with electrifying action scenes and bristles with intriguing ideas about a frightening, near-future world…. Daemon and Freedom™  combined form the cyberthriller against which all others will be measured.”
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About the author

Daniel Suarez is an independent systems consultant to Fortune 1000 companies. He has designed and developed enterprise software for the defense, finance, and entertainment industries. An avid gamer and technologist he lives in the Western Hemisphere.

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