108,847 words (≈ about 7 hours)
James Kowalski is having a bad week. First he found out his genius girlfriend Sophie has been hiding something important from him. Now the US government wants her to investigate a drug cartel's new weapon: unmanned drones. Drones that happen to look a whole lot like the ones his best friend Jesse uses to hunt treasure in the Caribbean—or so Jesse says.
Then a research trip goes violently wrong, and James finds himself stranded deep in the Colombian jungle, on the… (more)
Language: English
Written in: 2012
Published: 2012-01-02
Word count: 108,847 words (≈ about 7 hours)
License: Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (cc by-nc-nd)
Tags: suspense, technothriller, drones, thriller, adventure, action, Jon Evans
Jon Evans is a novelist, journalist, adventure traveller, and software engineer. His novels have won an Arthur Ellis Award, translation into half a dozen languages, and praise from The Economist, The Times, and The Washington Post. His most recent work is the Vertigo Crime graphic novel The Executor.
Jon's journalism has appeared in Wired, Reader's Digest, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, and The Times Of India, and he writes a weekly column for TechCrunch.
Jon has released four of his novels - Beasts of New York, Invisible Armies, Swarm and The Night of Knives - under a Creative Commons license; all can be freely downloaded from Feedbooks.
Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:57:34 +0100
Since first reading Night of Knives I became a fan of Jon’s work. Swarm and Invisible Armies have both proven to be compulsive reading with imaginative plots and unexpected twists and turns all of which I’m sure would make Hollywood block buster films! Can’t wait for the next masterpiece.