DRONE

With a fascinating international cast of characters and nonstop action, Mike Maden’s Drone kicks off an explosive new thriller series by exploring the frightening legal and political dangers of drone warfare.

Troy Pearce is the CEO of Pearce Systems, a private security firm that is the best in the world at drone technologies. As a CIA operative, Pearce used his intelligence and combat skills to hunt down terrorists. But after a decade of clandestine special ops, Pearce opted out; too many of his friends had been sacrificed on the altar of political expediency. Now, Pearce and his team choose which battles to take on by deploying his land, sea, and air drones with surgical precision.

New US President Margaret Myers won a hotly contested election on a platform of no new foreign wars. But when her only child and a dozen other students are killed in a cross-border assault by drug cartel hit men, she secretly authorizes Pearce Systems to locate and destroy the killers sheltered in Mexico. Pearce, his team of scientists, and an on-the-ground task force go to work—and soon they are thrust into a showdown with the hidden powers behind the Mexican attack. They risk igniting a full-blown shooting war with dangerous enemies—at home and abroad.

Mike Maden’s intense, page-turning novel is action-packed and frighteningly real, blurring the lines between fiction and the reality of a new stage in warfare.


Mike Maden holds both a Master’s and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California at Davis, specializing in international relations and comparative politics. He has lectured and consulted on the topics of war and the Middle East, among others. He has served as a political consultant and campaign manager in state and national elections and hosted his own local weekly radio show. He has also written a hit web-TV series and several screenplays that are in development. This is his first novel.