Kill Decision, Daniel Suarez
Kill Decision, Daniel Suarez
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Kill Decision

Author: Daniel Suarez

Narrator: Jeff Gurner

Unabridged: 13 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 07/19/2012


Synopsis

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.

About The Author

Daniel Suarez is the New York Times bestselling author of Daemon, Freedom™, Kill Decision, Influx, and Change Agent. A former systems consultant to Fortune 1000 companies, his high-tech and sci-fi thrillers focus on technology-driven change. He lives in Los Angeles, California.Jeff Gurner has appeared on and off Broadway and in numerous regional theaters. His television credits include Law & Order: SVULaw & Order: Criminal IntentMercyThird Watch, and Rescue Me. He is an award-winning audiobook narrator known for his work on New York Times–bestselling author Daniel Suarez’s novels. Gurner is also one-half of the vaunted comedy music duo Joberg & Gurner. To learn more, visit jeffgurner.com.


Reviews

Pimping and optimizing one´s autonomous killing devices, with the help of nature's ingenuity at writing self auto learning algorithms into genetic codes, has hardly ever been such bloody fun. Be aware of the flock Swarm algorithms, be it birds, fish, insects, or just primitive orientation tools, for......more

Goodreads review by Kemper

I never realized this before but when the machines finally become self-aware and Skynet launches its attack on humanity, I’ve got the perfect place to hole up nearby. So while you all are being enslaved by robots, I’ll be safe in SubTropolis with a lifetime supply of liquor and books. Don’t bother k......more

Goodreads review by Bradley

This is my fourth by Daniel Suarez and I'm constantly surprised at how versatile he is. This one is a straight Techno-Thriller, right down to the tight and crafty combat cell, nifty science-types, and even a great little section of programmers. But most of all, it's all about the explosions, the clos......more

Goodreads review by Paul

Solid read, great ending and premise. Loved hugin and munin!! This is one of those books that can easily be turned into a great film. One for any Crichton fans out there and I'll definitely be checking out more of Suarez.......more


Quotes

"Kill Decision really nails it...Daniel – wow – awesome."
—Brad Feld, Business Insider 

"Perfectly blending nail-biting suspense with accessible science, bestseller Suarez (Daemon) establishes himself as a legitimate heir to Michael Crichton with this gripping present-day thriller."
Publishers Weekly (starred review) 

"This is the kind of mind-expanding novel that uses entertainment to make powerful, important points about alarming current trends; the novel as cautionary tale has rarely been better executed...Highly recommended."
— Tim O'Reilly 

"Kill Decision reads like a Michael Crichton thriller..."
— Associated Press



"A confident thriller that leaves us wondering not whether its fictional premise will one day become reality, but when."
Kirkus Review
 

"Daniel Suarez came out of nowhere...he self-published his first techno-thriller, Dameon, an enthralling convincing tale about a murderous AI loose on the Net. Now he has a publisher and a sequel, Freedom™.  It's even better."
Time on Freedom™ 

"Greatest. Techno-thriller. Period....Experts have long feared the Internet doomsday scenario; Daemon is arguably more terrifying."
—William O'Brien, former White House director of Cybersecurity and Communications Policy, on Daemon 

"Daemon does for surfing the Web what Jaws did for swimming in the ocean."
Chicago Sun-Times 

"Daemon is the real deal-a scary look at what can go wrong as we depend increasingly on computer networks."
—Craig Newmark, Founder of Craigslist 

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.”
Publishers Weekly (starred review)