Drone State, Paperback/Tom Hillenbrand

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Description Glauser Award 2015 - Best German Crime Novel Lasswitz Award 2015 - Best German SF Novel Why interview witnesses when all their movements and conversations have already been archived on a hard disk? Why investigate crime scenes when police drones have already photographed them from all possible angles? A Brussels MP is found murdered near the EU capital. At first, detective Aart van der Westerhuizen is confident he can solve the case quickly using Europol's near-omniscient police computer TEREISIAS. But then he realizes the digital evidence may have been tampered with. Soon Aart becomes embroiled in a conspiracy that threatens to shake Europe to its core. Praise for "Drone State" A sweeping thriller about our future in the surveillance state . . . since Orwell has aged a little, it was high time for a novel like this. - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The scariest thing about this gripping detective story is how plausible the future presented in it seems. - Technology Review Brillant and fast-paced, "Drone State" is a treasure trove of imagination, chock-full of futuristic high-tech ideas. - Les Inrockuptibles