HUNTER KILLER is the first-ever inside look at the U.S. military's secretive Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) program. Commonly referred to by the media as drones, RPAs are a mysterious and headline-making tool in the military's counter-terrorism arsenal. Their story has been pieced together by technology reporters, major newspapers, and on-the-ground accounts from the Middle East, but it has never been fully told by an insider. Lt. Col. T. Mark McCurley spent a decade flying Predators and Reapers, during which he developed some of the tactics used by the program, wrote the first tactical manual used to fly the Predator, and witnessed the RPA’s evolution into the most sought-after aircraft in the war