Dirt Bikes, Drones, and Other Ways to Fly

Written by Conrad Wesselhoeft

A grieving teen daredevil's video game skills draw the military's interest in drone warfare.

341 pages· 72,649 words· Est. 8 hour read· HL590L

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Seventeen-year-old Arlo Santiago rides dirt bikes like a daredevil and tops the rankings of a drone-warfare video game, which catches the attention of the U.S. military. As they recruit him for real missions over Pakistan, Arlo must weigh what they want from him against the scars left by a violent death in his family, and decide how to keep living in the wake of loss.

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Seventeen year-old dirt-bike-riding daredevil Arlo Santiago catches the eye of the U.S. military with his first-place ranking on a video game featuring drone warfare, and must reconcile the work they want him to do with the emotional scars he has suffered following a violent death in his family. Adios, Nirvana author Conrad Wesselhoeft, takes readers from the skies over war-torn Pakistan to the dusty arroyos of New Mexico’s outback in this young adult novel about daring to live in the wake of unbearable loss.

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