Weapon

Weapon by Robert Mason
(Author of Chickenhawk)

First book in the Solo series. Weapon was adapted for the film "SOLO"

New York Times Notable Book 1989

Solo, a two-billion-dollar weapon discovers himself while being tested in the jungles of Costa Rica.

"One of the best chase adventure novels of the eighties...Where other techno-thrillers end, Weapon is just warming up." —Martin Cruz Smith

The star of this ingenious debut novel is Solo, a highly sophisticated robot. Endowed with an intellect and feel ings, Solo experiences conflicts about his role as a killer and, eluding his Pen tagon masters, aborts his helicopter mission and crash lands in a Nicara guan village. "Readers will eagerly await Mason's promised sequel to this rousing anti-techno-thriller techno- thriller," concluded PW.
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