Kill Decision Thriller

The shocking techno-thriller that cements Daniel Suarezs status as the heir to Michael Crichton and Tom Clancya terrifying, breathtaking, and all-too-plausible vision of the worlds near future . Unmanned weaponized drones already existtheyre 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 unmannedand thanks to her research, automateddrone 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 humansand off-loading that responsibility to machines will bring unintended, possibly irreversible, consequences. But as forces even McKinney and Odin dont 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. Review "Perfectly blending nail-biting suspense with accessible science, bestseller Suarez establishes himself as a legitimate heir to Michael Crichton with this gripping present-day thriller." -- Publisher's Weekly (starred review) "A confident thriller that leaves us wondering not whether its fictional premise will one day become reality, but when. " --*Kirkus Reviews on Kill Decision *" "A plausible account of how, and more importantly, why, the real 'skynet' might be created." --Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc. "Kill Decision is a fantastic techno-thriller. As someone who has designed combat robots myself, I found the technology depicted both accurate and chilling." -- Alexander Rose, Roboticist & Executive Director of The Long Now Foundation "Suarez's fiction is closer to reality than most people think." -- Chris Anderson, author & Editor-in-Chief, Wired Magazine From the Author From the New York Times Bestselling author of Daemon and Freedom , comes a terrifying, breathtaking, and all-too-possible vision of the world's near future. In his new novel, Kill Decision , Daniel Suarez turns to the timely and increasingly important topic of combat drones. The book tells the story of myrmecologist Linda McKinney--a scientist studying weaver ants--who is forced to team up with a Special Ops soldier after her research is stolen and used by unknown forces to power autonomous swarming weapons. Suarez's well researched thrillers are based on real science and technology, and in Kill Decision he takes the very real implications of automated war to its next logical step. ϡ쯦랠 Sie leben nicht. Aber sie töten. Blutiger Drohnenangriff auf eine Pilgerstätte im Irak. Ein weiterer Angriff trifft eine kalifornische Universität. Die Biologin Linda McKinney ahnt nichts davon: Sie erforscht gerade eine besonders aggressive Spezies afrikanischer Ameisen, als sie mitten im Dschungel gekidnappt wird. Ihr Entführer heißt Odin, und er hat ihr offenbar das Leben gerettet. Wer sind die Mächte, die Lindas Forschungen zur Schwarmintelligenz unterdrücken wollen? Während sich in den USA grauenhafte Bombardements häufen und in den hintersten Winkeln des Planeten Millionen fliegender Tötungsmaschinen vom Band laufen, macht sich das Team um Odin und McKinney daran, die Menschheit vor der Vernichtung durch ihren eigenen technologischen Fortschritt zu retten ... Der neue Roman vom «Jules Verne des digitalen Zeitalters» (Frank Schirrmacher): visionär, verstörend, einzigartig. «Eine exemplarische Spitzenleistung eines kaum analysierten Genres. Übertreibung braucht Suarez kaum.» (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) «Mit diesem perfekten Mix aus nervenzerfetzender Spannung und verständlicher Wissenschaftlichkeit etabliert sich Daniel Suarez in diesem spannenden Thriller als der legitime Erbe von Michael Crichton.» (Publishers' Weekly) «Ein souverän geschriebener Thriller, bei dem wir uns am Ende nicht fragen, ob diese Fiktion eines Tages Wirklichkeit wird, sondern wann.» (Kirkus Reviews) «Dieser Roman ist näher an der Wirklichkeit, als die meisten Menschen glauben.» (Wired)