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    Unmanned

    By Dan Fesperman

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    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 'piloted'. Reluctantly, Cole teams up with three journalists seeking to discover the 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 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCorvus
    Release dateOct 2, 2014
    ISBN9780857893437
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    Dan Fesperman

    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 Guantánamo won the Dashiell Hammett Award from the International Association of Crime Writers. He lives in Baltimore.

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    • 2/5
      'Unmanned', Don Fesperman's supposed fast-paced techno-thriller, lost me about halfway through when I realized its caricatured main characters and confusing cast of government, private, semi-government, contractor, and assorted other involved persons were creating a mess that was far from fast-paced. I didn't find the descriptions of the technology to be all that interesting, Fesperman's writing was tolerable but his dialogue was awful, the plot was OK at a high level but falls apart in the details, and the conclusion was totally unrealistic. Other than that, it was OK I suppose....I 'discovered' Fesperman via his recent 'Safe Houses' spy thriller, one of my favorites of this year, and thought I'd be able to reach back into his catalog for others of similar quality. So far, it's been hit or miss and Unmanned was a real miss.
    • 3/5
      This is a story of what a person might do if an act from him caused another person to die.This psychological novel tells of Darwin Cole. He had been an F1 fighter pilot in the Air Force. He was transferred to be a pilot in the Predator Drone Program. He's given the order to strike a home in Afghanistan. After Darwin sets the missile on its way, he sees a little girl running for her life, then the missile hits. The next thing Cole sees is the death and destruction caused by the missile.Cole has a daughter about the same age as the girl who was killed and he is haunted by his action. He looks for the man who ordered the strike and said it was a HVT (High Value Target) but the man can't be found.Cole starts to drink more than he had and becomes a drunk, he goes AWOL and is discharged from the Air Force. His wife takes their children and leaves him. He's left living in a trailer in the desert.One day a reporter arrives at the trailer and asks him to join her and two other journalists trying to find the person who ordered the missile strike to hold him accountable for his actions.Cole joins the team and speaks to a couple of people to get information of where the man is. At the same time, Cole is being hunted by a man who will decide his fate once he finds him.I've enjoyed Fesperman's other novels, in particular "The Prisoner of Guantanamo." The character's in this book and the drama were not up to the level of Fesperman's other works.I received this book in return for an honest review.