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The short Audio festival continues and I'm not mad about it.3.75I can't say that I'm a huge [a:Aleksandr Voinov 3074905 Aleksandr Voinov https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1471073279p2/3074905.jpg] fan, in fact this might just be my second read, and it's radically different from my first which was historical, but I”ll definitely keep going. My draw to this was the length, commute perfect, and [a:Gomez Pugh 8435087 Gomez Pugh https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png], who has had my unwavering devotion from the first PsyCop book. He does not disappoint. I'd say that a good way to describe this would be a mash-up of Pacific Rim, a non-sucky Transformers, and the the precogs from Minority Report. It works. Chris is a pilot with built-in hardware which allows him to control an un-maned “drone” or other assorted machines. Very cool. Until it's not. One day after a snafu with his “flight” suit he meets a fellow pilot who while wining and dining him questions the legitimacy of some of their missions etc. Some hot hotel sex ensues and Chris wakes up to find that things are not as they seemed. The author tries to delve into the “heavier” subjects of civilian war casualties, particularly our modern drone warfare, and to whom does technology belong to and what are its legitimate uses. Valid and important questions but the author doesn't really allot sufficient time to address them. On the romance front I'd say this more of a Happy Lust scenario with good possibilities of becoming something more, but once again there's no time to explore the relationship in any satisfactory way. If this were a one-night sexcapade for Chris I might have been happier. No expectations. No disappointment. As it is the ending was hopeful, maybe even a HFN but I would've been infinitely happier with a few more pages or some epilogue. I'd still recommend it, particularly for the enjoyment of Gomez Pugh doing his thing, and a fairly inventive and entertaining story about humans and technology in future/modern times.