In the crosshairs you see a bearded man standing next to the car and talking on the phone. He doesn’t yet know that the weapon has been checked, the laser has been aimed, and now the missile can fall off the suspension. He has no idea that you have been watching him from the air for the past months and have learned his life by heart. A life that may end now because of one movement of your finger - as if in an exciting gladiatorial game. You are a representative of the rarest profession: an operator of an unmanned aerial vehicle, which many have already heard about, but few know in detail. And the memoirs of Colonel Thomas Mark McCurley, who was at the origins of the Predator project - a drone with weapons on board - talks about the combat use of the device in such detail that you can easily imagine yourself in the pilot’s seat. This is a weapon of a new era - a pilot controls a UAV from thousands of kilometers using a joystick and satellite communications, receiving orders via chat. Funny and scary events, international army humor and chaos (and not only) - everything is in this extremely frank book.