Unmanned

Dan Fesperman's "Unmanned" is a timely novel about aerial drones and their sanitary means of execution. Fesperman implies that these supposedly “surgical” weapons cause a great deal more “collateral damage” — such as the opening scene when a missile is launched at a suspected terrorist gathering tha......more

Quite a fun read, an interesting look at the burgeoning field of drone flights and the implications for domestic surveillance. Can anybody say "Big Brother is watching you!" Darwin Cole once piloted F-16 fighter planes. Then he was moved to piloting drones from outside of Las Vegas. An incident, a ro......more

"Unmanned" tells the story of what might happen to a person whose mistake caused others to loose their lives. The psychological novel tells of Darwin Cole, a F1 pilot who is reassigned to be a pilot in the Predator Drone Program. He's given a target by a man who states it's a HVT - high value target.......more

A UAV pilot takes a mission he is involved in very personal and burns out causing his demise and dishonorable discharge from the USAF. Something about the mission does not sit right with him and bothers him even in his personal exile. When contacted by some independent reporters looking into the ver......more

This is a very interesting and diverse author. The first book I read by him was Lie in the Dark, and the action was in Sarajevo during the war in Yugoslavia. From that point on, I read every book he's written. This one is a humdinger and is written around the use of drones. I can only say, if you re......more