"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, haunted by
the memory of an Afghan child running for her life from the Predator drone he 'p
iloted'. Reluctantly, Cole teams up with three journalists seeking to discover t
he identity of the anonymous intelligence operative who called the shots in that
ill-fated mission.
But in a surveillance culture, even the well-intentioned
must sometimes run for their lives. Especially when they're tracking leads to th
e very heart of that culture - in intelligence, in the military, and among the u
nchecked private contractors who stand to profit richly from the advancing techn
ology...Technology not just for use 'over there', but for right here, right now.
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