![]() ![]() ![]() That experience brings a much sharper edge to the details of what the soldiers and defense staff inside the program go through on a daily basis. Clarke didn’t just pull this story out of thin air, he has a real life history with the U.S. It’s a deadly chess match between two brilliant sides using the highest levels of technology and each one promising to defend their country to the bitter and inevitable end. ![]() On the other side of the story is the Mafia, Al-Qaeda, and others who find the drone attacks on their land a blight against humanity and vow to stop it. They scour the planet, looking for high value targets, people deemed dangerous and other poor souls added by the ‘Kill Committee’. Sting of the Drone follows a handful of military and defense personnel who work in the U.S. Clarke found it with his new novel, Sting of the Drone. ![]() What makes a good thriller novel? Is it pacing, like it has to make you turn the pages faster and faster until the back cover finally slams into place? Or is it believability, the idea that what’s happening in the book could happen right outside your front door? Maybe it’s happening right now? Or maybe it’s an intangible thing, something that just grips the reader and keeps them locked on for the ride. ![]()
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