Weapon

What happens when a two-billion-dollar weapon goes AWOL? "Weapon" is the story of Solo, a robot created as the ultimate killing machine. There's just one problem—the weapon refuses to kill on command.

Equipped with telescopic, microscopic, and infrared vision, the strength of thirty men and reflexes beyond those of any Olympic athlete, Solo also has a brain. Bill Stewart, the gawky co-owner of Electron Dynamics, has created the thing most computer engineers only dream a machine can learn. Sent on a trial in Costa Rica with Bill and General Clyde Haynes, Solo monitors a Pentagon transmission ordering him shipped back to Florida for reprogramming. In a helicopter chase beneath the jungle canopy, Solo crashes his chopper, crawls out of the wreckage and, as his batteries begin to run out, escapes across the border into Nicaragua. Robert Mason, author of the New York Times bestselling Vietnam War memoir, "Chickenhawk", enters entirely new territory in a smashing fiction debut.

Robert Mason was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, in 1942. He was raised on a farm near Delray Beach Florida, went to the Delray Beach schools, and attended the University of Florida. He dropped out of college after 2 years, worked odd jobs, met the love of his life, Patience, and married her in 1963. He then joined the Army in 1964 to learn to fly helicopters. He flew as a combat helicopter pilot with the First Cav Division during 1965 and 1966 in Vietnam. "ChickenHawk" is Mason's New York Times bestselling memoir of that time. Fascinated by artificial intelligence and believing that combat robots will be the future of warfare, Mason has written "Weapon" and "Solo", two science fiction books which follow the world's first killer robot when it escapes from its CIA handlers during combat trials.