Dragonflies: Shadow of Drones (Book 1 of the Dragonflies Series)

By Andy Straka

A Mind-Bending Technothriller sequence From Shamus-Award profitable writer Andy Straka (with Durrell Nelson)

BOOK 1 DRAGONFLIES: SHADOW OF DRONES

Former military helicopter pilot Raina Sanchez, grounded after being shot down and desirous to be again within the air, plunges right into a courageous new global of stealth-killing micro-drones.

Raina joins Tye Palmer, the adorned ex-infantryman who rescued her from the flaming wreckage of her Kiowa chopper. As civilian inner most investigators, jointly they embark on a delicate, dicy attempt: utilizing state-of-the-art, micro air automobile drones in an try and disclose the son of media rich person Nathan Kurn as a campus rapist.

But her loyalties take a possible detour whilst she starts to appreciate a chilling fact. In an the US the place surveillance units as small as bugs are secretly piloted into areas such a lot could by no means think, private and non-private forces huge and small are maneuvering to regulate them with inevitable results.

With own allegiances or even love weighing within the stability, Raina quickly confronts a danger which could modify the process historical past.

“She studied the MAVs for a couple of moments. They have been appealing of their personal method, she thought…What occurs while the machines we construct develop into extra like us?”

PRAISE FOR DRAGONFLIES:

"Dragonflies nails the candy spot the place technology fiction meets mystery. Straka’s dreamed up a helluva workforce for a helluva sequence. What a ride!"

– John Gilstrap, long island occasions bestselling writer

“Mysterious executive tasks, conspiracy, and a touch of a destiny romance…a skillfully crafted plotline, suspenseful build-up and a climatic cliffhanger.... you could warrantly I’ll be impatiently ready to learn the second one within the series.”

– NetGalley Devours

About the Author:

Publisher’s Weekly has featured writer Andy Straka as certainly one of a brand new crop of “rising stars in crime fiction.” His past novels contain A WITNESS ABOVE (Anthony, Agatha, and Shamus Award finalist), A KILLING SKY (Anthony Award Finalist), chilly QUARRY (Shamus Award Winner), THE evening FALCONER (called a “great learn” by way of Library Journal), list OF WRONGS (hailed by means of secret Scene as “a best thriller”), FLIGHTFALL, and THE BLUE HALLELUJAH.

Always desirous about flight, Andy is a certified falconer and co-founder of the preferred Crime Wave on the annual Virginia pageant of the booklet. a local of upstate manhattan and a graduate of Williams collage, he lives together with his kin in Virginia.

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The auto got here to an abrupt cease. She heard Murnell open his door and climb out, one of many males subsequent to her to boot. This needed to be a unique position than earlier than. Her van were parked just a couple of miles from her condo, however the trip to what she assumed stands out as the similar facility she’d been taken to formerly already appeared to be over. the remainder defend subsequent to her unlocked her handcuffs and pulled off her hood. She waited until eventually her eyes adjusted to the close to darkness of the car–they should have disengaged the dome mild so establishing the doorways supplied no mild. the rest defend exited the automobile and in his position stood the shadow of Murnell, who gestured for her to stick with. She slid around the seat and stepped out onto pavement. Stood and took an extended go searching. “What is that this position? ” They certainly weren’t within the comparable facility Murnell had introduced her to prior to. in reality, it was once not anything greater than an deserted car parking zone subsequent to what looked to be a shadowy row of dilapidated warehouses. simply past the structures a stretch of huge, soft water was once faintly seen, disappearing off into inky blackness–the Potomac she guessed. Upriver or downriver, she wasn’t yes. “Do you recognize the place you're? ” Murnell requested. “No. ” “Good. chances are you'll simply have a greater probability of dwelling a bit longer. ” It was once the 1st time Murnell had made any recommendation of a probability opposed to her, and even if he or any of his colleagues was once the resource of the chance wasn’t transparent. yet she took him at his note that he was once. Who have been they? real Homeland–mainstream, and, she might wish, felony govt varieties? Or a few type of splinter staff plucked from inside of Homeland’s byzantine spider net of pursuits and long past rogue? Whoever they have been, she was once starting to have severe doubts if by any means it have been her luck to have one way or the other dialed up their cognizance and fallen into their internet, their seductive expertise and good-looking scientist spokesman apart. yet then she understood. the reply was once so basic it was once correct there in entrance of her. “You humans needs to rather be in determined want of pilots. ” Murnell checked out for an extended second. “Let’s go,” he stated. His non-answer instructed her she was once directly to anything. It made ideal experience, in any case. Drones have been taking to the skies everywhere. Any hobbyist with a sensible cell may well pilot an easy one via an empty sky or round a local. With extra time, education, and class, as together with her MAV education, they can hover nearly unseen countless numbers of toes within the sky utilizing the main robust cameras and imaging services may perhaps offer. however the holy grail of covert surveillance used to be having the ability to swoop in up-close-and-personal thoroughly undetected. the probabilities have been endless–even pinpoint deadly assaults with entire stealth wouldn’t be off the desk. however it took a person like her to bring the products. pcs have been getting quicker and extra robust with each passing day and synthetic intelligence software program an increasing number of refined. yet trusting AI and an self sustaining drone to fly the way in which she’d piloted the hover angel into the construction to undercover agent on Nathan Kurn was once nonetheless a ways too risky–at least for now.

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