Drone State

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Why interview witnesses when all their movements and conversations have already been archived on a hard disk?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

“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 Intelligently imagined science fiction from the brave new world of total surveillance. Die Zeit This futuristic thriller has echoes of Philip K. Dick's "Minority Report" and keeps . . . the cyberpunk tradition alive. Le Monde Brillant and fast-paced, "Drone State" is a treasure trove of imagination, chock-full of futuristic high-tech ideas. Les Inrockuptibles Tom Hillenbrand invents the future of crime with diabolic precision and devastating cynicism. Transfuge”

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

Intelligently imagined science fiction from the brave new world of total surveillance.
Die Zeit

This futuristic thriller has echoes of Philip K. Dick's "Minority Report" and keeps . . . the cyberpunk tradition alive.
Le Monde

Brillant and fast-paced, "Drone State" is a treasure trove of imagination, chock-full of futuristic high-tech ideas.
Les Inrockuptibles

Tom Hillenbrand invents the future of crime with diabolic precision and devastating cynicism.
Transfuge

Tom Hillenbrand was born in Hamburg, Germany. He has an MA in European Politics. After working as a reporter and section editor for the online edition of DER SPIEGEL and others, he became a full-time author. His thrillers and science fiction novels have won him various prizes and are bestsellers in Germany. He currently lives in Munich without any cats. Laura Caton was born in California and spent her childhood living across the United States and near Stuttgart, Germany. After graduating from the University of Pittsburgh in 2013 with an MA in German Language and Literature, she moved to New York, where she worked for several years in international and nonprofit theater. In 2016, she was awarded the Gutekunst Prize for Emerging Translators. She currently lives in Pittsburgh.

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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