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Award 2015 - Best German SF Novel Why interview witnesses when all their movements and conversations have already been archived on a hard disk?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.
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